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Tech Moves: Hootsuite adds CMO; Flexe appoints COO; Absci names CFO

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Vilk previously worked as CMO at Woocommerce, an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress sites. Founded in 2008, Vancouver, B.C.-based (Hootsuite Photo) — Hootsuite appointed Elina Vilk as chief marketing officer. She also held marketing leadership roles at Meta, PayPal, eBay and Visa.

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Temporal is a unicorn: Developer productivity startup lands $103M at $1.5B valuation

GeekWire

That’s where Temporal comes in, offering an open-source microservices orchestration platform that replaces ad-hoc systems. The backstory: Co-founders Maxim Fateev and Samar Abbas previously worked together at Uber and helped build an internal open-source orchestration engine called Cadence.

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Tech investors give their top predictions for 2024

GeekWire

Similar to the 2008 and 2009 wave of applications that rode the wave of mobile, new technologies that are cracking tangible applied-use cases of AI will start to pick up steam in 2024.” The genie is certainly out of the bottle on AI as a fundamental platform shift and it’s here to stay.

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

GeekWire

Founded a year ago by former Uber engineers who previously worked at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Temporal has built an open-source microservices orchestration platform that can replace ad-hoc systems currently used by developers. “We’re providing a much simpler model for developers,” he said.

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OneBusAway needs ‘influx of cash’ to hire dedicated developer and keep popular transit app running

GeekWire

OneBusAway was started by then-University of Washington PhD students Watkins and Brian Ferris in 2008. The open-source code project has grown far beyond the Seattle region and is used by transit agencies in New York City, Washington, D.C., San Diego, Spokane, Wash., Buenos Aires, Australia, Finland and more.

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Sentry’s David Cramer on bootstrapping a unicorn

CIO Business Intelligence

Sentry was started as an open source project by David Cramer in 2008 to provide monitoring services for application developers. Sentry’s open source and cloud-based offerings support 100+ languages and frameworks and provide developers with visibility into the health of their applications. million developers today.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. Dallas replaces founder Ed Boyajian , who led the company since 2008. EDB has more than 1,500 customers and over 750 employees. In addition to Great Hill, Bain Capital Private Equity is a major shareholder.