Fractional CTO
Zach Babb
I make computers do pretty much anything. Since CTOs are more in demand than CEOs, us technical folks are able to charge a premium. That disadvantages groups without historical access to capital. The United States didn't ensure equal credit until 1974. That's not even Mad Men era, that's, uh, That 70s Show era.
Book an Appointment →Only heavy machinery operation is more gender-skewed than tech CEO.
And I'm told more women are getting into that than building companies.
This is not an implication that women can't do it alone. It is an acknowledgment that the entry cost to a market is structurally higher for people who were structurally denied the tools to meet it. The only equitable path is for entrenched participants to make market entrance easier.
Pick your tier.
Which direction the factor of a hundred is unfair I ask we take to the bar. Entrepreneur has a nebulous enough definition that you shouldn't worry too much about it.
The year women got credit.
1974 was the year women were given the federal right to have credit in the United States. Not to own property, not to start a business on their own terms, not to access the capital that makes markets accessible — those came later, unevenly, and in some cases are still coming. Just credit. In 1974.
1973 was Roe. The rights women have held the longest in this country are measured in decades, not centuries. The $19.74 rate is a marker. A reminder of what was withheld and when, and a small structural correction in the one place I can make one.
Make computers do pretty much anything.
At this point I can likely build your prototype or MVP in that hour. I've built browsers, marketplaces, payment systems, booking platforms, P2P video networks, and distributed task managers. If you need something built, I've probably built something adjacent.
I can also integrate with the Freyja stack: sessionless authentication with no passwords or emails, federated commerce via Agora, P2P video via Lucille, distributed backend infrastructure via Allyabase. Privacy-first, self-hostable, no surveillance layer required.
And I can point out, with some snark but reasonable accuracy, why whatever the tech world is currently doing is probably wrong. That one's free with every booking.
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Send a message if the booking system isn't up yet. It will be — I just took the toddler to the park.
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