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

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Hes seeing the need for professionals who can not only navigate the technology itself, but also manage increasing complexities around its surrounding architectures, data sets, infrastructure, applications, and overall security. And with all the competition for AI talent, some companies are taking a different approach to recruiting.

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5 machine learning essentials nontechnical leaders need to understand

TechCrunch

Snehal Kundalkar is the chief technology officer at Valence. For this piece, I interviewed a select group of successful ML leaders including Sambhus; Lior Gavish , co-founder at Monte Carlo; and Yotam Hadass , VP of engineering at Electric.ai, for their insights. ML recruiting strategy. Snehal Kundalkar. Contributor.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

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Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? And accumulate.

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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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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? 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. Hiring a hands-on lead developer might seem like the right move for an early stage startup.

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

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The startup has raised $300 million, funding that it will be using to continue building out the tools that it provides to its customers and to expand its technology and services to more geographies. The challenge that Remote is addressing is longstanding in the world of work, one that has been exacerbated with globalization.

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

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Other participants in the round include DCM (Kyle Liu), Bling Capital (Ben Ling), and Precursor Ventures (Charles Hudson), as well as angels including Ancestry CEO Deborah Liu, Giphy founder Alex Chung, and Twitter VP of Engineering Nick Caldwell, formerly of Reddit. The idea to return to human curation, not A.I., these days.

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