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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. And, told publicly for the first time, Siemiatkowski reveals how he once sought out PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an advisor, only to learn a little later that he had started Affirm, one of Klarna’s most direct U.S. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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GSAS is taking place in CCIB, Barcelona this year

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Robust and scalable software is in the center of every discussion and talk, which makes it a perfect place for people who fight for quality in the software development world. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a free website devoted to helping developers in the journey to becoming a software architect.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. And, told publicly for the first time, Siemiatkowski reveals how he once sought out PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an advisor, only to learn a little later that he had started Affirm, one of Klarna’s most direct U.S. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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Global Software Architecture Summit 2022 Recap

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Here’s a breakdown of the profiles: Software Developers (66,4%) Tech Leads (8,5%) Software Architects (8,1%) CTOs (6,2%) Principal Engineers (5,6%) Recruiters (3,4%). Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a free resource website devoted to helping developers in the journey to software architect.

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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Why did YouTube win?