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

CIO

Hiring AI talent US IT staffing firm Motion Recruitment found that AI engineers saw over a 12% growth in salaries compared to a year ago, and mid-level workers saw a 20% increase. And with all the competition for AI talent, some companies are taking a different approach to recruiting.

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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. The team also plans to add new consumer-facing features and more seller tools.

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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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Juro draws $23M into its browser-based contract automation platform

TechCrunch

” The startup has focused on disrupting the use of legacy tools like Word and PDFs for contracts — offering a dedicated, browser-based contract builder platform, rather than merely creating a cloud-based work flow for moving files around.

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

TechCrunch

Remote workforces have come into their own in the last several years, with companies ever more willing to tap into talent wherever it happens to be, and a vast array of low-friction tools being built to make those distributed teams work just as effectively as if they were all in the same physical space.

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Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash

TechCrunch

In the software industry, observability tools provide businesses insights on the health of their production apps. At best, observability tools can flag when apps are performing under par and help identify the root causes of issues. In the poll, they cited inadequate legacy tools, a lack of platform options and fragmentation (i.e.,

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

TechCrunch

For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater to that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on the back of strong demand for its tools.