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Tech Moves: Payscale CEO steps down; a16z adds Seattle-based partner; Madrona hires investor

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Founded in 2002, Payscale is majority-owned by private equity firm Francisco Partners. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. Seattle recruiting startup Candidate hired Sean B House as VP of engineering and Krista Place as head of marketing.

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AWS, Microsoft, Uber engineering vets raise $20M from top VCs for Seattle startup Temporal

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Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. The software works behind-the-scenes to ensure that the code powering a company’s business processes across various microservices remains safe and preserved. “Temporal is one of the most promising software companies,” Muglia said in a statement.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

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Right when the Napster movement, anti Napster pro Napster movement was going on, named him says he went and defaced a bunch of websites and, and that was one of the first cases I was hired from, you know, a corporate corporation that had been defaced asking if I could analyze, you know what happened there. That was really fun.