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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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Also unique: record breaking investment and M&A activity across the country and in Seattle, as companies take advantage of pandemic-driven trends such as virtual experiences, at-home healthcare, remote education and more. billion as of November 2019. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO.

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

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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 manufacturer of radio-frequency identification devices and software reported revenue of $76.6

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

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NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. He began running Startup Haven full-time in 2019 and recently launched a Startup Haven accelerator. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks tech leader departs; former T-Mobile exec joins Ossia board; and more

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. — Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. She previously spent more than a decade leading IT teams at Seattle software company Attachmate. office locations. Michelle Newbery (left) and Karthik Sivakumar.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

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Some even implemented their own virtual personal assistants (VPAs), which included at least natural language processing—and sometimes more intelligence than that. Suddenly, for the first time, the power of AI was accessible to non-technologists. This immediately opened the potential to tap more value from legacy systems.”

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Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of secrecy

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Microsoft disclosed its initial $1 billion investment in OpenAI in 2019. The announcement today also revealed, for the first time, that Microsoft made a follow-on investment in OpenAI in 2021. That investment wasn’t announced at the time, and does not appear to have been previously reported.

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO Business Intelligence

Be prepared to answer common board questions about cyber readiness, technology roadmaps, and plans to hire and retain a diverse team. They assume their board lacks technical expertise In 2019, MIT reported that only 24% of US boards of companies with over $1 billion in revenue were digitally savvy.

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