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Tech Moves: Karat, Common Room, Aduro hire execs; longtime Microsoft cloud leader departs

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Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. Common Room, a Seattle startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers, hired Matt Duchesne as vice president of sales. He also worked at VMware and Avi Networks. .

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DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

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Over a period of less than three years,” program manager Dr. Gill Pratt wrote in the January-February edition of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, “DARPA expects the field of robotics to undergo a historic transformation that could drive innovation in robots for defense, health care, agriculture and industry.”.

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . CEO : Todd Dunlap , former managing director of North America at Booking.com and former vice president of consumer and online at Microsoft. Founded : 2011. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). billion after fresh $80M round. Karat Photo).

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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

GeekWire

Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. Rob Shurtleff , who helped to recruit Vellon to HP, remembered him in a note to their former colleagues as “the very tall Cuban American wizard developer we hired out of college back in the HP150 days.” ” Not a venture capitalist.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO Business Intelligence

Since that 2011 revelation, Arooni has been doing just that: redefining IT organizations and service delivery models to embrace agile ways of working, including creating product-centric structures with persistent teams responsible for the entire lifecycle of a product. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One.