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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. Indeed, Super these days seems to refer to itself as an “insuretech” ).

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

TechCrunch

Founder and CEO David Zamir is not actually an Uber alum, but one of his first employees, VP of Engineering Oliver Nicholas, is an early Uber engineer, and the company has also found a lot of traction of Uber drivers this year, after many found themselves out of work after the chilling effect that the pandemic had on ridesharing.

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Asure’s approach to enhancing their call center experience using generative AI and Amazon Q in Quicksight

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Asure recognized the potential of generative AI to further enhance the user experience and better understand the needs of the customer and wanted to find a partner to help realize it. As we embarked on our journey at Asure to integrate generative AI into our solutions, finding the right partner was crucial.

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Four things that matter in the AI hype cycle

CIO

Second, if you’re selling software and services to other companies, you’re going to find that many have paused spending on new tools while they sort out exactly what their approach should be to the GenAI era. Finding similar text is reduced to finding the distance between two vectors.

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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

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. Which brings us to the next question.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

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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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

I took this diagram and drew a red dotted line around each slice referred to as “tech debt” at one point or another. Stakeholders sometimes feel like engineering teams spend a lot of time on tech debt, but once you take the time to unpack all the work in the category, the exact reason for this is obvious.