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How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a unique expense management giant

TechCrunch

In fact, many of Expensify’s initial team actually met at Red Swoosh, which was eventually acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2007 for $18.7 “While I was licking my wounds from that experience, I was approached by Travis Kalanick who was running a startup called Red Swoosh,” he recalled in an interview.

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Longtime investor and operator Adam Nash says he just launched a new fintech startup

TechCrunch

All we really know at this point is that he co-founded the company with Alejandro Crosa, an Argentinian software engineer who most recently spent five months at Slack but logged more than three years at both Twitter and LinkedIn before that.

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History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

The MongoDB development happened when the organization was putting all force into developing a Microsoft Azure-type PaaS in 2007. Eliot Horowitz then joined DoubleClick Research and Development division as a software engineer after his college. If you’re a programmer, you might hear about MEAN or MERN stacks daily.

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Are you ready for MLOps? 🫵

Xebia

Operations ML teams are focused on stability and reliability Ops ML teams have roles like Platform Engineers, SRE’s, DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, IT Managers. Since 2007 DevOps has been a massively influential methodology in software development. … that does not make things easier.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

In fact, many of Expensify’s initial team actually met at Red Swoosh, which was eventually acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2007 for $18.7 By 2007, Beevers had completed his Ph.D. in robotic mapping at RPI and tried his hand at co-founding and running an engineered-wood-product company named SolidJoint Research, Inc.

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. Compared to other European countries, Switzerland has a low regulatory burden and a well-educated, highly qualified workforce.