TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Our goal in tracking startups growing at scale is to scout future IPO candidates and better understand the late-stage financing market. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Ghodsi took over as CEO in 2016 after serving as the company’s VP of engineering. How do they find that information?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Despite competition from other players in the somewhat-crowded payroll API space, Pinwheel has demonstrated significant traction in the market and hopes to differentiate itself by building an entire “income layer” of data for its customers that extends beyond just payroll information. . Pinwheel has hired a number of its employees from $13.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

The observability market has matured in recent years with the growth of vendors like Datadog , New Relic , PagerDuty and the aforementioned Splunk. Masar, who serves as Better Stack’s CEO, said that the funding will be put toward hiring with the goal of expanding the team from 14 to about 30 people by the end of the year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

First and foremost, it will go toward expanding its business to more markets. ” In addition, Remote will be using the funding to continue building more tools and partnerships to integrate with other providers of services in what is a very fragmented human resources market. The funding will be used in a couple of areas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Van der Voort, who had previously been VP of product at GitLab, where he was a supporter of remote work but also someone who understood those challenges first-hand: he helped to build that organization’s remote team to 450 employees from just five.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“By building an investment fund focused on blockchain opportunities, we get to spend our time doing due diligence on teams and tech in web3, which gives us insight into what is missing in the market,” Mike Boroughs, co-founder and managing partner of Fortis Digital Ventures, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

According to him, the company is becoming a market leader in that strategic niche. “In In a quarter, we will be doing close to half of all direct-deposit switches in the neobank market,” he said. Among notable hires, Lauren Crossett, formerly of Plaid and Quovo, has joined the company as head of commercial.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. Wed be the engine of a profitable and growing business. Are we the best product engineering org in the world today? And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. It cant be done.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The real estate sales market has been in an upswing this year, and today a startup that’s addressing one of homeowners’ biggest needs — repair and maintenance services, and specifically the stress of sorting these out when things break down — is announcing some funding on the heels of strong growth. More on that below.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Sestito, the former director of threat research at Cylance and VP of engineering at Qualys, co-founded the company several months ago with Tanner Burns and Jim Ballard. “Adversarial machine learning attacks are not loud like ransomware — you have to be looking for them to catch them in time,” Sestito said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

CEO Kelly Ahuja tells TechCrunch that the proceeds, which bring Versa’s total capital raised to $316 million, will be put toward go-to-market efforts and scaling the company. Versa’s large round suggests that, despite the market downturn, VCs haven’t lost faith in cybersecurity vendors yet. billion in 2021).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

But in what might be a sign of the times, today a startup that’s focused on e-learning and the subsequent job market for a completely different end of the spectrum — home services — is announcing some funding to continue building out its business in earnest. Nana has now raised $10.7 And nor do most of us want to.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Andela is currently working with eight companies that have hired its engineers in Latin America and Africa. In addition to the diversity play, the CEO says that means Andela engineers get to prove themselves on a global playing field in a way the company has “always wanted to see.”

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Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

If your startup is growing, you’re hiring. And if you’re hiring senior-level talent, you probably need an outside recruiter. Few in-house recruiters have the expertise or network that a professional, third-party recruiter offers. However, there’s good news: The right recruiter does much more than hire someone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

As founders find themselves fielding ample investor interest, accelerators are changing how they invest, what they offer to their cohorts, and how they maximize value and attract top talent, reports Natasha Mascarenhas. Image Credits: Dilok Klaisataporn (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

I’m using the job title “salesperson” here — but I’ve also seen social media outreach folks, marketing people, and even PR folks reaching out to investors. Hire the right people to build the company. In the earliest days when there’s just two or three of you building a company, everybody does everything.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Wijegunawardena recalls that ten or more years ago, when Box was a growing company, it could not spring for the high-end video chat systems for remote engineers, so they used Google Hangouts instead. “We Use high-touch onboarding.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

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.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 2, 2015

I’ve written quite a bit about aspects of this topic, especially from the perspective of startup founders looking for talent – you can find these in: Startup CTO. Of course, just because a CTO or VPE is listed doesn’t mean it’s working well. Armed with your networking tool, now it’s time to get it out to all the people you know.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech. I have a great partnership with our recruiting teams.

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Gitprime

MAY 2, 2019

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. Start by building a network and a brand.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 23, 2020

CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. They are often confused with CIOs, VPs of Engineering, or Technical Directors. VP of Engineering – tech team management. If CTO is an enthusiast, then VP of Engineering is a great manager. People management tasks. Allocate tasks.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 6, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sudhir, Ram and Paul are all experienced executives accustomed to managing large teams and successfully bringing complex products and services to market. They also understand what it means to stay close to their customers to develop the solutions the market needs. This will be a very engaging conversation and I hope you will attend.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The word “sharing” is one you won’t find used very often in business. Competition has increased in every market and those who succeed have to spend time, money and effort to win. You need to share your vision of success with others and help them find the desire and drive to succeed. You get the picture.

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Gitprime

MARCH 13, 2019

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. Hire for character first, competency second.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

They’re hiring data scientists expecting them to be data engineers. The company goes on an exhaustive search to find the best data scientist ever. We hired you to do data science.”. Conferences aren’t telling CxOs about the virtues of data engineering. We have conferences on data engineering. That’s great.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of engineering: our own Emily Nakashima , formerly director of engineering (formerly manager, formerly engineer). First, I’d write a post if we had hired a new VP of engineering, so I should write one about having grown one from within.

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James Shore

MAY 5, 2024

In my new role as VP of Engineering , there was one question I was dreading more than any other: “How are you measuring productivity?” I need to be accountable for engineering productivity. With my XP plans and the XP coaches I’ve hired, it’s totally doable. I can’t fault the question. Probably not. It might not matter.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 4, 2021

This is the second time we’ve grown an executive from within. One year ago, I wrote a similar post welcoming Emily Nakashima to her new role as VP of Engineering. At Honeycomb, it’s important to me that we promote people and hire from within, and that we be transparent about what we choose to reward as an organization.

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Infinidat

MARCH 28, 2024

You can find out right now why a slew of Global Fortune 500 enterprises deploy Infinidat enterprise storage solutions, including our award-winning InfiniBox™ SSA II all-flash system, InfiniBox® hybrid, and InfiniGuard®, supported by our unparalleled white glove service. stars out of 5 in the Primary Storage Arrays market.

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

​“I have to do everything myself, and I don’t have time to fix all of this.” ” The CEO who said that to me was a successful entrepreneur who had grown his startup into a 25-person marketing company serving hundreds of brands. That might include a reorganization, hiring to fill gaps, or both.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. Ensure each team includes people who have business, market, and product expertise. Give each team full responsibility over particular products or market segments. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

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CloudSphere

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Despite their expertise in this space, however, many IT professionals find effectively maintaining these environments to be quite challenging. Due to the technological nature of the cloud, CIOs and professionals in the IT sector are often the ones who become responsible for these environments. There are actually a few reasons.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 10, 2024

To dive deeper into this topic, Emily Nakashima, VP of Engineering, and Charity Majors, Co-Founder and CTO, sat down to discuss the current state of frontend observability , common misconceptions, and how it’s changing the way developers work. Emily: Right, and it’s not just about finding bugs.

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