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The Product Manager asterisk

TechCrunch

Product manager might be one of the most grey roles within a startup. Of these positions, product management might be one of the most elusive — and key — roles to fill. Product managers need to realize that there is a lot of janitorial work that gets done in product management,” he said.

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Switchboard creates virtual rooms to foster better collaboration

TechCrunch

This was a problem not only for my music lessons but for remote work across the globe, where teams are trying to build products, manage projects or brainstorm new ideas together. Switchboard allows users to run multiple web-based apps including Google Docs, Figma, Trello and Jira in a single “virtual room.”

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Founded by Adyen and Affirm alums, Ansa aims to help merchants create virtual wallets for customers

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Founded last year by former Adyen product manager Sophia Goldberg and ex-Affirm software engineer JT Cho, San Francisco-based Ansa is building what it describes as a white-labeled digital wallet infrastructure to help businesses process small payments and offset high credit card fees for smaller transactions.

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Transforming workloads: Harnessing AI within VMware environments

CIO

For those enterprises with significant VMware deployments, migrating their virtual workloads to the cloud can provide a nondisruptive path that builds on the IT teams already-established virtual infrastructure. In Google Cloud, IT has all that it needs to scale up quickly to enable AI with their existing virtual infrastructure.

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Grain lands $16M led by Tiger Global to turn virtual meetings into ‘libraries’

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Think of the student wanting to record part of a virtual lecture, or a colleague wanting to flag the most important bits of information conveyed in an online meeting. Even then — perhaps especially then — the company’s proposition made sense in a wide number of scenarios. Podium has roughly 2,000 employees.).

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AI security analytics: Turning your data into defenses

CIO

The real key to effective AI in cybersecurity is giving it access to the data that makes your environment unique, and typically, this is data which is traditionally hard to operationalize in a cyber security context, says James Spiteri, director of product management for generative AI and machine learning at Elastic.

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Product School raises $25M in growth equity to scale its product training platform

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Meanwhile, big global brands and companies who need product managers to grow their businesses can’t sit around waiting for people to graduate. Product School provides certificates for individuals as well as team training, and says it has experienced an upwelling of business since COVID switched so many companies into digital ones.

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