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Seattle VR startup Rec Room raises $145M, reaches $3.5B valuation

GeekWire

While Rec Room has been available since 2016, when it first arrived on Steam, its community grew dramatically over the course of 2020. 2020, Rec Room ’s userbase had tripled. The startup is led by co-founder and CEO Nick Fajt , who previously was at Microsoft as a producer and program manager on HoloLens.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe delivers sample of asteroid — and moves on to next target

GeekWire

(NASA via YouTube) Seven years and 4 billion miles after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a precious sample of one near-Earth asteroid — and is now on course to rendezvous with another one in 2029. Rocket thrusters built at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility in Redmond, Wash.,

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Schneider Electric leverages AI to help develop employees’ careers

CIO Business Intelligence

The global energy equipment and solutions provider’s Online Talent Management (OTM) platform, launched in early 2020, gives employees more agency around identifying mentorship opportunities, upskilling, and growing their networks within the organization.

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‘It changed my life’: Microsoft vet creates mentoring program for tech-focused college students

GeekWire

Top universities are able to accept a fraction of applicants to their in-demand computer science programs. These relatively affordable institutions of higher ed have been ramping up their computer science courses, offering multiple four-year degree options. ” (Photo used with permission) So he’s trying to change that.

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How the Google union could boost labor organizing in Silicon Valley

The Verge

This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,” Nicki Anselmo, Google program manager, said in a statement that referenced the company’s decision not to renew a Pentagon contract to analyze drone footage after employees protested. In November 2020, Google illegally fired four workers for organizing.

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‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company lead new startups in Seattle

GeekWire

The company, backed by the likes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, grew rapidly in its first five years, hitting the 1,000-employee mark in 2020. Vice president of operations Victoria Kiss was a demand program manager at Convoy. The startup provides hour-by-hour earnings predictions over the course of a week.

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Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

GeekWire

He is also a Hootsuite alum and was director of software development for the social media management tool after it acquired Brightkit, which McGuire co-founded. Thinkific raised $22 million last year to grow its platform for creating online courses. Amplero shut down in 2020 due to economic impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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