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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

GeekWire

Widner, a board member at Lighter, most recently served as managing partner at the venture capital arm of the National Australia Bank. The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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Discount Code for Strata and Hadoop World NYC is 28-30 Oct 2013

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Tech Moves: Accolade’s new board member; Adaptive Biotechnologies names a COO; and more

GeekWire

Adams joined the Seattle biotech giant last year as CTO. Adams was previously a managing director at SVB Leerink, an investment bank specializing in healthcare and life sciences. She joined the company in 2013 as SVP of commercial operations. Mark Adams is now COO.

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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

GeekWire

And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. Founded : 2013. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round.

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Doing shots with true believers at Ethereum’s biggest party

The Verge

It was inspired by an Onion headline, Yang explained: “ American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress.”). He touted the time he hired a chief blockchain architect, Thaddeus Batt, for the state. He heard about Coinbase in 2013 and eventually traded his gold and silver for crypto. “I