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

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. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” 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. He left in 2017 to launch San Francisco, Calif.-based

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. Teresa Carlson. Splunk Photo). Dave Heiner.

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Silicon Valley mainstay NEA leads $37.5M investment in Seattle cloud startup Pulumi

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Jay Wampold , a veteran marketing executive with experience at companies including Chef, Amazon Web Services, Qumulo, and Cloudability, recently joined Pulumi as chief marketing officer. The company says it also hired Lindsay Marolich as senior director of demand generation and Kevin Kotecki as VP of sales.

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Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

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When Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched in 2016, aiming to compete against the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, it practically redefined the concept of minimally viable product, or MVP — with just one cloud region and a handful of cloud services.

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