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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

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Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. The company raised a $230 million Series D round in 2021, but has had multiple rounds of layoffs since then. Former Redfin CTO Sasha Aickin is CEO of the company, which aims to help customers improve prompt engineering.

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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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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

GeekWire

Some of the winners at the 2021 GeekWire Awards during their virtual acceptance speeches on Thursday. But Thursday proved to be an inspiring day, as the 2021 GeekWire Awards returned to honor some of the leading innovators and entrepreneurs who make up the Pacific Northwest tech community. GeekWire video screen grabs).

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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. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based Seattle event technology startup eventcore hired Chris Emerson as VP of sales and marketing. She was most recently a VP at VMware.

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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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Sam Altman’s venture fund invests $3M in startup using humans and AI to keep people on task

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The startup launched in 2021, when co-founder and CEO Sharon Pope was feeling a bit overwhelmed in the midst of the pandemic. After the three co-founders, the startup counts a software designer as its lone employee, along with about 20 contracted Shelpers. Or, both, in a three-way chat.

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