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

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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. ” Chang had already advised Whatnot on some of its growth problems in the past, he notes.

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How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering

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Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes.

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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. Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? Any suggestions on strategies and how to help our company stand out? And accumulate.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

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This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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Remote raises $150M on a $1B+ valuation to manage payroll and more for organizations’ global workforces

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And Remote is also getting cosier with other parts of the HR chain of services: applicant tracking system Greenhouse is now integrating with it to help with the onboarding process for new hires. A lot of new hires, as well as existing employees who are possibly not from the U.S.

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Pinwheel raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation for its income verification APIs

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We can actually show that their income stability is totally there, they’ve been employed for a long time, and they’re actually going to perform much better [in repaying a loan],” Lin said. Pinwheel has hired a number of its employees from $13.4

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Honeycomb, a private social app for families, raises $4M seed round

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Other participants in the round include DCM (Kyle Liu), Bling Capital (Ben Ling), and Precursor Ventures (Charles Hudson), as well as angels including Ancestry CEO Deborah Liu, Giphy founder Alex Chung, and Twitter VP of Engineering Nick Caldwell, formerly of Reddit. The idea to return to human curation, not A.I., these days.

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