Fractional CTO
Zach Babb
I make computers do pretty much anything. I'm better at tech than I am at executing, so I'm sticking with tech — and trying to make it more accessible to the people who need it most.
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Heavy machinery operator. And I'm told more women are getting into that one.
Men with "ideas" are common enough. CTOs are the in-demand half of that pairing, which means tech people cost more than they should. That cost is a feature for people with institutional backing and a bug for everyone else — and institutional backing has been specifically denied to women for most of the history of that backing existing.
I've been a CEO and a CTO. I'm better with tech. So: fractional CTO work, with rates that reflect who the market has historically excluded and why.
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.
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.
Book some time.
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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