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NASA provides funding for way-out space proposals, including a flying boat for Titan

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who says his space venture — Planet Enterprises — is “pretty much a one-man band,” at least for now. Two other researchers based in the Seattle area also won Phase 1 grants in the latest round of awards by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC. NASA says it’ll distribute up to $2.45

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Tech Moves: Ex-Tableau sales chief Kelly Breslin Wright joins Gong; Slalom expands board; more

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During his time as a partner at Madrona, Chakrabarti focused on investments in enterprise and cloud-based infrastructure companies. Founded in 2001, Slalom currently has more than 9,500 employees globally. Hoge spent 16 years at Microsoft, most recently as group program manager for the Windows 11 user experience.