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Fast-growing livestream shopping platform Whatnot acquires Pastel Labs, hires VP of engineering

TechCrunch

To aid on that front, Whatnot is making two key hires, one of which involves the acquisition of Pastel Labs, a company founded in 2020 by Jeff Chang , previously the technical lead for Pinterest’s growth team and a well-known growth advisor. Whatnot raises another $150M for its livestream shopping platform, evolves into a unicorn.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

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Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. Because I think that is the name of the game when you’re talking about a startup. Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent?

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How do you select the right tech stack?

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So to help founders understand what a good tech stack should look like, we invited two experts on this topic, Preeti Somal , the EVP of Engineering at HashiCorp and Jill Wetzler , the VP of Engineering at Pilot , to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 to discuss everything from evaluating vendors to making sure you can rely on an open source product.

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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. And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. The founders were immersed in XP, and XP is where we want to return, but there was a period of time where the company grew quickly and lost that XP culture.

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Super raises $50M to cover home repairs and maintenance via a subscription model

TechCrunch

The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. But as they have matured, AR and other computer vision breakthroughs have definitely helped to advance that game.

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What Makes a Great VP of Engineering?

BeautifulCode

Hiring and retaining best talent, creating a culture that keeps everyone on top of their game, well planned execution and ensuring high competence bar for individual team members are the top tasks of a good VP of Engineering.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

There was fresh momentum around the idea that engineering ICs should be able to progress up a dedicated technical career ladder—one that didn’t top out where management levels began, or push ICs on an up-or-out path into management. These constraints incentivized managers to think hard about how to retain and grow their best senior engineers.