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This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off

TechCrunch

Fubini is a Carnegie Mellon grad who cofounded an enterprise company, CubeTree, that a dozen years later, sold to SuccessFactors, which was itself acquired by SAP the next year, in 2011. Fubini helped cofound the outfit with a handful of others.) In fact, the founder of XYZ, Ross Fubini, says his firm wrote Anduril its first check.

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Traceable AI nabs $60M to secure app APIs using machine learning

TechCrunch

The new capital values the company at more than $450 million post-money, and CEO Jyoti Bansal — who’s also the cofounder of BIG Labs and Unusual Ventures — says that it’ll be put toward product development, recruitment, and customer acquisition. billion) and Harness (which recently raised a $230 million Series D).

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Data observability startup Observe secures $70M

TechCrunch

Prior to cofounding Observable, Burton served as the SVP of product and services marketing at Oracle; was group president of Symantec’s enterprise security and data management division; headed EMC’s products group as president; and was chief marketing officer at Dell. It brings the company’s total capital to date to $114.5

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Wondering How to Find an App Developer?

Mentormate

Technical Cofounder. They work well with extremely specific technical instructions. You’ve managed teams of developers and have written technical requirements for years. Technical Cofounder. Technical cofounders are brought on early in a company’s lifetime. Offshore development shop.

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3 Biggest Mistakes Founder CEOs Make When Building that Crucial First Team

Battery Ventures

Far too often, technical CEOs who have brilliant ideas cannot execute on them, leading to their replacement by seasoned CEOs. After interviewing a few external candidates, I often see founders go with the familiar option, choosing the cofounder or early employee who is like-minded. Avoid being in their business every day.

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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While those simple systems can technically be considered distributed, when engineers refer to distributed systems they’re typically talking about massively complex systems made up of many moving parts communicating with one another, with all of it appearing to an end-user as a single product, says Nora Jones, a senior software engineer at Netflix.

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How Blockchain May Help Future-Proof Your Software Development Career

Gorilla Logic

Verify identity with soulbound tokens (SBTs): First proposed by Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin and co-authors Glen Weyl and Puja Ohlhaver in a whitepaper published in 2022 , SBTs are non-transferrable NFTs that would offer an ideal way to manage permanent records. References Hyperledger Vs Corda Vs Ethereum: The Ultimate Comparison.