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Former Facebook, Dropbox, Amazon, Convoy leaders are building a secretive new Seattle startup

GeekWire

Linda Lian , a former associate at Madrona Venture Group and senior product marketing manager at Amazon Web Services, is leading a group that also includes: Tom Kleinpeter , most recently a principal engineer at Dropbox who sold a music streaming startup to the cloud giant in 2012. He spent nearly eight years at Dropbox.

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

GeekWire

Crimmins, a Seattle tech veteran, founded Startup Haven in 2005. Mehta joined PSL in 2018 from ExtraHop Networks, where she was CFO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. F5 Networks Photos). —

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. on the West Coast. billion. —

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

He originally joined the travel company’s board in 2005. AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. She succeeds co-founder David Brown, who will remain on the board of the global network for entrepreneurs. Redmond, Wash.-based

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Interview on MySpace and social media - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Businesspeople are finding that they can build their networks online at least as well as they can in the usual cocktail parties. I talked about how social media is unleashing our latent humanity, by providing us with new ways of interacting and relating. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

Company employees managed information technology resources (compute, storage, network) and companies tightly controlled their data in facilities they managed. On March 13, 2006, Amazon Web Services launched Simple Storage Service (S3). and heralded a gradual but steady global adoption of cloud-based storage services.

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Is it ‘Day 2’ at Amazon? A former executive’s turnaround plan for the tech giant

GeekWire

Since I left Amazon in late 2005, my entire mission has been to advise management on innovation and growth by leveraging “the Amazon Way.” I spent twelve years as a Managing Director at a turnaround consulting firm after I left Amazon (Alvarez and Marsal from 2005 through 2017). (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). Now let’s get serious.

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