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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. Max Schmeiser , an Amazon vet and former head of research and data science at Seattle startup Convoy, is now head of data science at Twitter. Saykara Photo). Redmond, Wash.-based

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

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” Miller, who was working at Microsoft as a Windows program manager when Gates issued his memo, said he sees a disconnect in the company’s recent announcements touting its security revenue growth. . “So customers who either are unwilling or unable to pay that premium for the security features get left out in the cold.”

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