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

CIO

To help address the problem, he says, companies are doing a lot of outsourcing, depending on vendors and their client engagement engineers, or sending their own people to training programs. And with all the competition for AI talent, some companies are taking a different approach to recruiting. Tell us a story,' he says.

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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. Image Credits: Whatnot. ” 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage. What does the role demand?

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

Honeycomb

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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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

TechCrunch

The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far. The company has 15 employees so far and is looking to hire around half a dozen high-end engineers. He points out that his VP of Engineering is a woman. Activeloop image database. Image Credits: Activeloop.

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

TechCrunch

Pinwheel serves neobanks and fintechs like Block, Varo, and Lendly by providing application programming interfaces (APIs) linked to payroll, income, and employment data. Pinwheel has hired a number of its employees from $13.4 Pinwheel plans to use the fresh funds to triple its 70-person employee base, two-thirds of whom are engineers.

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Remote raises $300M more, now at a $3B+ valuation, to manage payments and more for globally distributed workforces

TechCrunch

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.