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Former Blue Origin rocket engine manager alleges wrongful termination for whistleblowing on safety

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The former program manager of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging whistleblower retaliation after he spoke up about safety issues. It includes a detailed narrative about program manager Craig Stoker’s efforts over seven months to […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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How Engineering Managers Can Help Recruiters Improve Developer Hiring

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The engineering manager vs. recruiter saga is an age-old story. One of the main reasons this happens is because both recruiters and engineering managers approach the same problem from different perspectives. Hiring managers should take their time with the JD. Yet, they remain at loggerheads.

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Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager

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Andreessen Horowitz just handed him $350 million for his new company, Flow, a residential real estate company, Anita writes. This amount, we are told, is the largest individual check a16z has ever written…and it went to Neumann, who the firm backed in May for another of his companies, Flowcarbon. The company raised a $3.9

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Mosey secures fresh capital to help companies comply with payroll rules

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It’s clear that remote and hybrid work are here to stay — the pandemic forever changed the way many companies do business. A recent Deloitte report found that slightly over half of companies won’t permit employees to work in locations in which the company isn’t already established for tax purposes.

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Fly.io wants to change the way companies deploy apps at the edge

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Today the company announced a $25 million Series B that it closed in June, and also publicly revealed a $12 million Series A for the first time that it raised last August. If that sounds like a CDN to you like Cloudflare or Akamai, Mackey sees a big difference between what his company is doing and this approach. “My

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YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M pre-seed to build financial OS for B2B companies in Nigeria

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Duplo , a Lagos-based fintech, is attempting to tackle these inefficiencies by digitizing payment flows for B2B companies, starting with those in this industry. Akinnuwa is the company’s CPO who, before Duplo, led lending and consumer payments at JumiaPay. 1,000 (~$2.00) to create virtual accounts.

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

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So it’s natural to think a company in the expense report management business would keep it simple and play it by the book. But one look at Expensify is enough to tell you that this is a company that never even looked for the book. We have a very unusual internal management structure. We’re an incredibly small company.

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