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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.)

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How this startup CEO adapted to the pandemic, economic downturn and his own fatigue

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In 1989, the family relocated to Seattle after Kumar’s father was hired as an engineer at Boeing. “I always felt a safety net with her there. ” Microsoft, then startups The Humanly team at Y Combinator, from left, CTO Bryan Leptich, CEO Prem Kumar and COO Andrew Gardner. million in September 2021.

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

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Unlike the 2020 class, which had to pivot to a remote format in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 participants and Techstars organizers are applying lessons learned from the past year of remote work. Pradyut Paul (left), CEO, and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO) of Bild. Founders: Nick Chua (CEO) and Kevin Arifin (CTO).

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Bank downplays ties to FTX sister company in latest fallout from crypto exchange failure

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out of 4,800, The New York Times reported. Its net worth was $5.7 The Times reported that in the third quarter this year, the bank’s deposits grew nearly 600% to $84 million. “It’s a startup because we’re raising capital, we’re hiring a team, and we have big growth plans,” he said. Morgan Chase.

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