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Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

TechCrunch

Across cultures and geographies, animals have been such a vital part of the food chain that it’s hard to imagine a world where animals are not put to the knife to produce protein. Cell-cultured meat is one such source. Eat Just also recently received approval to sell chicken breasts made with cell cultures. High steaks.

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Employee engagement platform Culture Amp raises $100M at a $1.5B valuation

TechCrunch

Culture Amp was founded in 2009 to let companies conduct anonymous employee surveys, but since then, its focus has expanded to helping employers turn the data they collect into action. The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5 The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5

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Rivian hit with gender discrimination lawsuit that alleges toxic ‘bro culture’

TechCrunch

The lawsuit alleges that Laura Schwab, a former sales and marketing executive who had a long employment history with Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin before joining Rivian in November 2020, was fired after reporting gender discrimination to the company’s human resources department. Two days later, my boss fired me.

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Robinhood files to go public after squeaking to profitability in 2020

TechCrunch

million in 2020. million, up around four times from its Q1 2020 result of $127.6 Notably, Robinhood was profitable in 2020, generating net income of around $7.4 Robinhood has proved to be a lightning rod for oversight , fines , mass usage and culture in the last year. Robinhood saw its revenues soar from $277.5

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The "two pizza" team culture. Maintaining a culture of DevOps no matter what the size of your organization is. Wednesday September 16th, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT

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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. Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots.

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5 pillars of a cloud-conscious culture

CIO

What has been learned over the last 15 years—often the hard way—is that for organizations to realize the full potential of cloud computing, they need to build and maintain a cloud-conscious culture based on five key pillars. Leadership The most important part of the cloud-conscious culture is leadership. I call it ‘learn by doing it.’

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A DevOps Guide for Product Managers

Speaker: Suzie Prince, Head of DevOps, Atlassian

Luckily, the culture of DevOps and the practice of Continuous Delivery supports product managers and their teams as modern software development evolves at a rapid pace. How product managers can support and build a DevOps culture. Wednesday November 18, 2020 at 1:30PM PDT, 3:30PM EST, 9:30PM GMT