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Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

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He is also a Hootsuite alum and was director of software development for the social media management tool after it acquired Brightkit, which McGuire co-founded. After a brief stint at Zillow Group, he joined Zulily in 2019. He was previously a senior manager at Amazon. Downs left the Seattle startup in 2018. Tony Small.

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NASA awards $2.9B to SpaceX for Starship lunar lander; Blue Origin team is left out

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billion to SpaceX alone for the development of its Starship super-rocket as a lunar landing system for astronauts — leaving out Alabama-based Dynetics as well as a team led by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture. Bezos touted the consortium’s aerospace pedigree at its unveiling in 2019. billion request.

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Radian Aerospace pursues a stealthy and unorthodox plan for orbital space plane

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The money would fund further development of the orbital launch system, with an eye toward beginning flights to orbit as soon as 2025, Business Insider said. “As a result, those vehicles do not present viable, relatively low-cost options for transporting crew and/or lighter cargo (e.g., about 5-10,000 lbs.)

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

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Hint: They are in the real estate, consumer internet, transportation, clean tech and gaming categories). 2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B Co-founder and CEO : Dan Lewis , former general manager of new shopping experiences at Amazon. Co-founder and CEO : Manny Medina , former director of business development at Microsoft.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. Efron most recently served as VP of marketing for Glytec, a technology solution for insulin management. Reynolds was most recently director of research and development at Mountain View, Calif.-based

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. He joined Publicis Media in 2019. He brings expertise in developing IT strategy, digital transformation, AI engineering, process optimization and operations.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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Hichert also conducts workshops on topics such as the future of transport and the future of migration, and she has trained the Joint Command of the South African National Defence Force on applying complexity thinking to decision-making. She was on Avance Media’s list of Top 100 Most Influential Young South Africans in 2019.

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