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Why Investing in the Database Market Is More Interesting Than Ever

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Premji Invest deploys a “crossover format” (investing in both private and public companies) across the technology, healthcare, consumer, and FinTech landscapes; it has backed market leaders like Outreach, Sysdig, Heyday, Anaplan, Coupa, Moderna, Carta, Flipkart, Looker (acquired by Google), and DataStax. Why invest in the database market?

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

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In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. Clearly, the leadership team at Starbucks had the foresight to hire a software company CIO. In terms of the latter, the ability to operate our software as a service within the hyperscaler platforms will increase our market share.”

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Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec step down as Jumia co-CEOs

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Francis Dufay, who previously held the CEO role at one of Jumia’s fledging markets, Ivory Coast, will now replace both co-founders as acting CEO, the company’s Supervisory Board said in the statement.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

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But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

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Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. In 2014, Micromax poached Samsung’s country head for mobile and digital imaging Vineet Taneja and appointed him the CEO.

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5 tips for switching to skills-based hiring

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While implementing a skills-based approach across the organization all at once can work with enough leadership support, it’s often better to start with a group of jobs that an enthusiastic leader enthusiastic is looking for fill before rewiring all systems throughout the company, she says. And it seems companies are getting the hint.

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Eaze to become America’s largest cannabis delivery service after buying Green Dragon

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One of the original on-demand cannabis delivery services, the Bay Area-based company is set to acquire cannabis retailer and cultivator Green Dragon, which operates in the hot markets of Colorado and Florida. Founded in 2014 by Keith McCarty, Eaze has raised over $255 million to date.

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