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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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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. where Kumar was born.

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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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It was acquired in 2020 by FBH Corporation, owned by Jean Chalopin, also the chairman of Bahamas-based Deltec Bank. 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. Morgan Chase.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft hires activist fired by Amazon; ex-Sprint CEO leaves F5 Networks board

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Amazon meanwhile has promised to become net carbon neutral by 2040, and in fall 2019 started the Climate Pledge , an effort to get corporations to join it in committing to climate goals. billion merger with T-Mobile that closed in 2020 as having an impact on his attendance, as well as travel restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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