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New Culture lands $25 million in seed funding to commercialize its cheesy vegan mozzarella

TechCrunch

By comparison, the vegan cheese industry is tiny, measuring around $1.2 That massive gap hasn’t stopped a syndicate of investors from plowing $25 million in seed funding into New Culture , a company that sells “cow cheese, without the cow.” New Culture will also require far less land use, obviously.).

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

In comparison, there were only 66 years between the Wright brothers’ first flight and humans landing on the moon (See belief #1). Often our most significant hurdle is company culture. In order to be successful in digital transformation, you have to address these cultural growing pains in lock-step of erasing technical debt.

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The need for true equity in equity compensation

TechCrunch

It’s good PR to say you’re a company with a strong culture focused on diversity, as it helps attract top talent. This is the culture and thus foundation of your company. Identify a “culture chair.” Some of it, in truth, has been window dressing. But the rubber meets the road once hires get past the recruiter.

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As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits

TechCrunch

The revamps include changes to video game access for youths, the culture of celebrity fan clubs and for-profit educational products aimed at students not yet in university. In recent quarters, the Chinese market has seen its openings narrow.

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Using responsible AI principles with Amazon Bedrock Batch Inference

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Cultural sensitivity – Summarize cultural references or idioms neutrally, without interpretation. This respects cultural diversity and minimizes misinterpretation, making sure that cultural nuances are acknowledged without imposing subjective judgments. get_object(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=object_key)['Body'].read().decode('utf-8')

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What We Learnt From Target’s Diversity And Inclusion Strategy

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Other criteria, such as personality type and thinking/learning style, may also be useful, though national comparison data on these may be difficult to come by. This data would be useful for gathering information about the current company culture regarding DE&I. Religion, belief, and spirituality. Sexual orientation. Veteran status.

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SoWork just convinced investors (and Tinder) that virtual co-working is here to stay

TechCrunch

The startup eventually rebranded and pivoted to Sophya, a company based on the feeling that every employer will eventually feel the pressure to invest in a virtual work experience for employees to repair culture and combat climate change. The diversity of the team is also striking in comparison to its competitors.