If you've been CTO for 8 years, there is a good chance that it's time for you to delegate more of the technical work to some team leads, while you focus on the wider needs of the company. Depending on how large the company is, your main task right now might be to better integrate the work of the tech team with the work of the marketing team, or inventory team, or content team. I've been writing about this issue a lot lately, see:
"Should top managers focus on their peers or on those who they lead?"
Many newly promoted managers stay focused on the work they used to do, but fail to give enough attention to the other parts of the business, with which they need to learn about and integrate with.
"Should top managers focus on their peers or on those who they lead?"
https://demodexio.substack.com/p/should-top-managers-focus-o...
Many newly promoted managers stay focused on the work they used to do, but fail to give enough attention to the other parts of the business, with which they need to learn about and integrate with.