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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

Hiring a hands-on lead developer might seem like the right move for an early stage startup. But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. A CTO can help you find the right answers. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product.

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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.

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

TechCrunch

.” 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. A lot of new hires, as well as existing employees who are possibly not from the U.S.

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HiddenLayer emerges from stealth to protect AI models from attacks

TechCrunch

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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‘How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live?’ — Eikon Therapeutics rakes in $518M

TechCrunch

We certainly see its ability to give us a unique advantage in finding new biology.”. But with this most recent funding round, the company has landed six more C-suite hires. . Daniel Anderson, former VP of biology at Recursion Pharmaceuticals, will join as chief scientific officer. Alfred Freddie Bowie, Jr.,

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

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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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Los Angeles CTO / VP Engineering Job Searches

SoCal CTO

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.