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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. The startup won GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch competition in 2019 and has raised more than $83 million to date.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars. The company is betting a lot on this concept succeeding.