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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

According to a survey conducted by FTI Consulting on behalf of UST, a digital transformation consultancy, 99% of senior IT decision makers say their companies are deploying AI, with more than half using and integrating it throughout their organizations, and 93% say that AI will be essential to success in the next five years.

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Faction raises $4.3M to deploy 3-wheeled EVs for driverless delivery

TechCrunch

Faction Technology founder and CEO Ain McKendrick didn’t have the $1 billion or the time that a typical automotive program might need to design and manufacture an EV that could be used for driverless delivery. Now, with prototypes built and an ambition to scale, McKendrick has raised $4.3

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage. But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. But you shouldn’t rely on the defaults. What does the role demand?

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Contentstack raises $80M to grow its headless CMS platform for the enterprise

TechCrunch

.” Contentstack, which was founded in 2018, was created on the back of fifteen-year-old consulting firm Raw Engineering and Built.io, an app development platform that Raw Engineering launched in 2013. Closing the loop, Contentstack eventually bought the CMS division of Raw Engineering in 2018).

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS success stats, leveraging ad tech chaos, 2022 layoff trends

TechCrunch

The increasingly isolated nation is now facing international sanctions, and “PEs are investing in the close management of compliance programs, policies and procedures at each of their portfolio companies,” writes Snežana Gebauer, a partner with StoneTurn. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed that, however.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Those are opportunities you can create to stretch engineers,” he says. More consistent, practical procedures like pair programming are great, but sometimes the nature of the projects don’t always support that.”.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. You see, Extreme Programming is too. Second, the build is written in a real programming language, and it stays in memory. It cant be done.