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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Anyone who has interviewed job applicants by winging it knows the routine: questions in a free-form document, notes on the back of a resume, and an overabundance of gut instinct and selective memory in the process. Price describes the company’s focus as intelligent talent selection. The company is self-funded by Price so far.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Later, he became a senior advisor at TPG, leading its portfolio company Wind River as CEO and overseeing its $3.5 Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Product managers aren’t a new job category by any means, but this shift means that they’re newly prominent and important to many companies’ strategies. As a result, many corporate leaders who are used to hiring for IT now have to learn what makes a good product manager as they seek to fill these roles.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring. To perform the job optimally in today’s fast-changing and unpredictable environment, CTOs must possess the right mix of skills and inclinations.

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2020

A new spinout from Seattle-based startup studio Madrona Venture Labs wants to help companies protect data flowing through their various cloud apps. Simplata Technologies is led by co-founders Steve Banfield , CEO, and Bruce Roberts , CTO. Banfield previously led BMW ReachNow as CEO and was an executive at traffic data company INRIX.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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APRIL 7, 2014

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. But with a growing number of customers and the increasing size of AI models, Clark and company recognized the need to shift to a cloud provider that could scale to its needs. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The challenge for IT leaders is clear : With employees quitting faster than they can be replaced, the rush to hire the right talent is on — so too is the need to retain existing IT talent. The applications had been transformed into SaaS and PaaS environment. Nobody wanted to deal with legacy solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With ongoing advancements in cloud technology and the seemingly unlimited potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies, many organizations are eager to digitally transform and modernize their operations and software applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. For example, retail sites typically have times when very few people shop.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2024

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

acquired San Francisco-based immigration consulting company Bridge. Founded in 2011, Bridge has helped more than 1,000 companies hire international talent and implement immigration strategies through its software platform and legal expertise. He’s joined by CTO and co-founder Forrest Blount , a former Google engineer.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

The company also announced $10 million in seed capital. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The duo teamed up to figure out how to reduce the time and money required to create machine learning applications. Geiger is a longtime product design and engineering consultant.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I often ask vendors to walk me through their product quote and explain what each product SKU or line item is, such as the cost for an application with the microservices and containerization,” Phelps says.

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GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2024

Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. “We’re currently hiring. “Seattle’s a great area to be building a company like this.” Radical Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“While it’s critical to control costs continuously, it becomes even more imperative during times of economic pressure,” says Jon Pratt, CIO at security managed services provider 11:11 Systems. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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JULY 10, 2023

Reducing technical debt Lowering technical debt by decommissioning legacy applications ranks among the most important and toughest aspects of digital transformation as it involves mindset changes. When the company was acquired by international brewer Heineken, UB had to be digitally transformed to bring it on par with the Dutch company.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. The software works behind-the-scenes to ensure that the code powering a company’s business processes across various microservices remains safe and preserved. “Temporal is one of the most promising software companies,” Muglia said in a statement.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . The company both competes and partners with cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft. Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc. Based in Kirkland, Wash.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. I’ve been writing about how life is different for software company CIOs for years — more specifically, on how they must make clearer distinctions between IT and product engineering than it is now for CIOs in other industries. So congratulations!

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JUNE 21, 2023

Since it was launched, the fund has raised $40 million and backed 32 companies. The startup studio said about 84% of the companies it backs fit into its core theme: intelligent applications. Strike Graph, a compliance automation company, nabbed $7 million last month. Madrona Venture Labs Managing Director Mike Fridgen.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The answers reflected the need for companies to properly prepare for cloud migrations. The “unanticipated” costs of not doing the prep work are legion: egress charges, (semi-) failed moves, moving the wrong things/combinations at the wrong times, failure to capture service costs pre-move for comparison, and so many more.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The company’s revenue for the full year ended Jan. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. 31 was down 5% to $2.23 Elizabeth Solomon.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But if there are any stop signs ahead regarding risks and regulations around generative AI, most enterprise CIOs are blowing past them, with plans to deploy an abundance of gen AI applications within the next two years if not already. CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammed confirms his company was using OpenAI’s GPT-3.x

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MARCH 13, 2023

For Andreea Bodnari and Chris Jones, both of whom left Silicon Valley tech companies to work at healthcare organization Optum, the lure was not concern over mass layoffs in big tech, but the prospect of solving real-world problems and the opportunity to work on technologies that make a difference in people’s lives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Sengupta acknowledges that layoffs at the tech giants in the past year or so eased the talent crunch a bit — but only for other big companies who could offer highly-competitive salaries to those laid-off workers. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. “We Fusebit co-founder Yavor Georgiev also spent time at Microsoft before stints at Hulu and Auth0. It also has private cloud hosting options.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Security and AI Among the IT leaders taking a cautious approach to AI is Saurabh Gugnani, the global head of cyber defense and application security at Dutch compliance firm TMF Group. For Neeraj Kumar, CTO of Arkreach, the speed with which AI technologies are being developed itself poses a threat.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Chan says. “The Geographical nuances are also arising.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models. Neum AI, a platform designed to assist companies in maintaining the relevancy of their AI applications with the latest data. YC received more than 24,000 applications for this year’s summer batch. Talc AI Talc.ai What’s your secret sauce?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The company is developing tools to help companies engage with software customers, and has backing from a high-powered array of Pacific Northwest tech executives. It’s all about timing: Magnify’s tool optimizes onboarding and use of software. has come out of stealth mode with $6 million in funding.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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