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Former Uber CTO Thuan Pham joins South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang

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Coupang , the country’s largest e-commerce company by market share, announced today it has hired Pham as its new CTO. In an interview with Bloomberg after leaving Uber , which Pham joined in 2013, he expressed relief about his decision, describing leading the ride-hailing giant’s technology division as “a very heavy burden.”

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Former CIA CTO Gus Hunt Joins Venture Capital Firm Artis Ventures’ Board of Advisors

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Former CIA CTO Gus Hunt Joins Venture Capital Firm Artis Ventures’ Board of Advisors. former Central Intelligence Agency CTO Gus Hunt made some of the government’s most important technology decisions. The news in the press release below is good for us all. – bg. San Francisco, Feb.

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The best way to grow your tech career? Treat it like an app

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As CTO, Raj Yavatkar is responsible for charting Juniper Networks ' technology strategy through the execution of the company’s innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, mobile edge cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration and hybrid cloud. Raj Yavatkar. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. Putting precious eng time on a cloud migration isn't worth it unless cloud spend starts to become a significant fraction of your gross margins. I'm not so sure? Which is true for some companies!

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SoftwareAG’s Acquisition of JackBe Recognized As Strategic M&A Deal of The Year

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Note: I’ve been a fan of these firms and their technology and at times an advisor to both and always saw this as strategic. Software AG acquired JackBe in August 2013 to serve as the foundation for its Intelligent Business Operations Platform, which provides analytics and decision management for real-time applications.

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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

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Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. Founders: Sameer Kapur (CPO), Vishnu Chakroborty (CTO), Gautam Ajjarapu (CEO).

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

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For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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