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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 27, 2020

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Watch the epic first-ever virtual Space Needle light show for New Year’s celebration in Seattle. What Valve’s top Steam titles of 2020 say about the state of video games. Tech Moves: Crowd Cow adds ex-Amazon leaders; former Expedia CTO joins Snap! Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

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” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. She continued to serve on Axiom’s board through 2020 but stepped down this month. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based She was most recently a VP at VMware.

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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

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Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. Rob Shurtleff , who helped to recruit Vellon to HP, remembered him in a note to their former colleagues as “the very tall Cuban American wizard developer we hired out of college back in the HP150 days.”

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Fed Tech Roundup November 4

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of Energy CTO, Principal. Dodging 'fatal errors' for Census 2020 tech - FCW.com. DISA tees up new round of contracts - FCW.com. Former DOE CTO Tseronis joins Deep Water Point - FCW.com (blog). DISA zeroing in on virtualization. Be an Astronaut: NASA Seeks Explorers for Future Space Missions. MarketWatch.

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Oil changes for houses: Startup led by former Expedia director offers regular home maintenance

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The company also offers a virtual agent for users to schedule a repair with a vendor. He is joined by other hospitality and property tech vets: CTO Greg Mushen held the position of Director of Product Management at Expedia, and also served as VP of Product Management at Seattle-based sales startup Outreach.

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Decentralizing Agendas and Decisions

Phil Windley

After doing the last four virtually, it was spectacular to be back together with everyone at the Computer History Museum. Last month was the first in-person CTO Breakfast since early 2020. CTO Breakfast is a monthly gathering of technologists in the Provo-Salt Lake City area that I've convened for almost 20 years.