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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. Whatnot even had to relocate from LA to Phoenix for a time.

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

TechCrunch

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Honeycomb is also different from mainstream social apps because it will be a subscription-based service, not one that’s monetized through advertising. these days.

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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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Hiring A Recruiter: 3 Things Startups Should Know

Battery Ventures

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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Startups, if your CEO isn’t running your fundraising, you’re doing it wrong

TechCrunch

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

Honeycomb

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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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

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.