GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles. 2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Keiser was most recently COO of CRM software company Zendesk. contract management startup Icertis.

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Employees have been asked to install software builds on their phones to test out new features prior to launch — only to find the builds expose their personal messages. If they did this to a customer, people would lose their goddamn minds,” says Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

You might compare that to Elon Musk, who in 2019 promised a fleet of 1 million Tesla robotaxis on the streets by the end of 2020. I feel like maybe the frame of our conversation is a little different — Argo makes self-driving hardware and software for cars. You make hardware and software that allows cars to drive themselves.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The pushback is real, and it starts with the introduction of one software tool to Apple’s workplace: Slack. Women at Apple started talking about his hiring, specifically in this Slack channel called Women in Software Engineering. So Apple rolled out Slack in 2019, a decision, I have to imagine, executives truly regret at this point.

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