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AWS vets lead new startup that aims to connect workers with nonprofits through ‘volunteerism’

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The Field Day team, left to right: co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Jason LaPier, engineer Garrett Sparks, engineer Trevor Smith, marketing and community lead Catalin Wong, and co-founder and CEO Eli Blackman. Employers and nonprofits will be able to share feedback with each other on the experience.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Shanahan , previously chief operating and innovation officer at Globys, a software company offering digital billing products. Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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

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Auth0, the billion-dollar Seattle-area startup that is a leader in identity authentication software, is being acquired by Okta , another leader in the space, the companies announced earlier this year. Deal of the Year – IPOs & Acquisitions, presented by Wilson Sonsini. Winner: Auth0. Eugenio Pace, Auth0 founder and CEO.

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GeekWire Awards 2020 revealed: Big winners, celebrities and surprises power virtual event

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Other finalists: Kwame Boler & Claudius Mbemba, co-founders of NEU; Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs; Aran Khanna, co-founder and CEO of Reserved.ai; Tony Huang, co-founder and CEO of Possible Finance. See this post for more background on this category. Deal of the Year: IPO and Acquisitions, presented by WSGR.

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Anti-Asian hate is spilling over to LinkedIn

The Verge

This statistic is crap and from a questionable source,” wrote one user who took issue with the data collected by the nonprofit Stop AAPI Hate. “.I From my own experience, the way you’re brought up is very goal-oriented,” says Kane Ma, a former UNC at Chapel Hill basketball player and chief technology officer at Kamo Digital.

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