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

GeekWire

Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital. Eby has been succeeded by Morgan Hellar who originally joined WRF in 2004 as a license administrator for the organization’s patent portfolio. Prior to her promotion, she was WRF’s controller.

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Seattle-based Icosavax, which is developing COVID-19 vaccines, files for IPO 4 years after launch

GeekWire

Icosavax creates virus-like particles with technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. Founder and CEO Adam Simpson formerly led another IPD spinout, PvP Biologics, which sold to the pharmaceutical company Takeda. Net losses were $5.3 Icosavax Photo). million in 2019 and $18.9

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal on vaccine equity, misinformation, preparing for the next pandemic

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Other countries like Germany put in place automatic stabilizers so that when an emergency happens, whether it’s a health emergency or an economic emergency, the government automatically kicked in levels of funding and social safety net support services and health services and other things that people would need. “The U.S.

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Mark Cuban on America’s future

The Verge

It’s like Fox News does its damage, and Facebook does even worse damage because it gets reinforced by people you actually know that are in your physical, your life bubble, in addition to just being on some wide social media net that you really don’t know the people and they’re abstract. Facebook’s not abstract, and that’s the huge difference.

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