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Katie Buss and Ben Howard take command at KinectAir travel service as co-CEOs

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based KinectAir , which provides a digital platform for booking on-demand private air travel. Buss previously served as KinectAir’s chief operating officer. Howard, who co-founded the privately held company in 2019, was chief technology officer before his promotion.

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Context on D-Wave Systems from President and CEO Vern Brownell

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He was also the Chief Technology Officer at Goldman Sachs. Having CTO roots and experience founding and running a very successful firm seemed to have positioned Vern well for leadership at D-Wave. Concluding thoughts: Like any great CEO or seasoned CTO Vern knows that the technology is not what this is all about.

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Amazon Cloud - Becoming a Storm? - Social, Agile, and.

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So I went back and took another look at EC2 and specifically the EC2 Operating System and Software or in their language, "off the shelf" Amazon Machine Images. As a Startup CTO , it was pretty easy to get hosting solved. Labels: amazon , cloud computing , SaaS , startup cto. Family Travelers. startup cto. (19).

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- Gray, not Green, Technology

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People travel a lot, via planes, trains and automobiles. Travel uses a lot of energy and burns a lot of fossil fuel. In the meantime, we’ll continue to jump in our cars (airplanes, buses) and travel to face-to-face meetings spewing fumes all the way. So is technology really the “savior of the environment?

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Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs - Social, Agile, and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

So an IT project may be to move to new infrastructure, or upgrade a version of a database or operating system, or to migrate a process. Family Travelers. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. Reply Delete D 8:50 PM I have been looking for a way to present this approach to management. Father of three. about me.

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Is Elon Musk calculated or crazed? Walter Isaacson discusses his new book on the GeekWire Podcast

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During his tenure at PayPal, Musk once challenged its then-chief technology officer, Max Levchin, to a literal arm-wrestling match in a bid to get the company’s engineers to adopt Windows NT over Unix. Listen above, or subscribe to GeekWire in Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.

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20 Reasons Why the Internet of Things will be Big and Important

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Android is becoming the standard operating system for the “Internet of things” Technologies. Family Travelers. startup cto. (19). Strategic Technology. AT&T is adding two innovation centers focusing on what At&T dubs machine to machine connectivity. Father of three. Keep me outdoors.

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