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What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product.

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Tech Moves: Google exec departs; Syndio adds engineering leader; JPMorgan CTO leaves F5 board

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Syndio Photo) — Nimrod Vered , a longtime engineering leader in Seattle, joined Syndio as senior vice president of engineering. Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. He previously held engineering leadership roles at Zipwhip, Microsoft, VoloMetrix, and Cisco. Nimrod Vered.

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Tech Moves: Superhuman hires CTO; Getty Images founder departs board; Xbox vet joins Unity

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Bee was most recently CTO at Lessen, a property services management startup valued at more than $2 billion last year. “I can’t be more excited to help build such a beloved product that gives people time back every day,” Bee wrote on LinkedIn. The company is now targeting enterprises. Ryan Powell.

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Tech Moves: Lexion leaders start new roles at Docusign; Spectrum Effect hires president

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Lexion CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi is now a vice president of product management at Docusign; CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany is a vice president of engineering; and co-founder James Baird is a principal engineer. Seattle venture firm Ascend hired Thomas Stahura as an analyst.

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Docusign to acquire Lexion for $165M in exit for Seattle-based AI contract management company

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(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Docusign announced an agreement to acquire Lexion for $165 million, signaling plans to integrate the Seattle-based company’s AI-powered contract management technology into its Intelligent Agreement Management Platform. Lexion has more than 100 employees, according to LinkedIn.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Glassdoor CTO will lead Auth0 engineering; Flyhomes hires CRO; and more

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based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. She will be responsible for Auth0’s various platforms and oversee the software engineering, data and machine learning teams. He will join AI2 full-time and become an emeritus professor at UW.

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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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(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. million investment round.

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