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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

Hint: They are in the real estate, consumer internet, transportation, clean tech and gaming categories). Industry: Enterprise customer data. GeekWire story from July 2021 : Amperity is Seattle’s latest unicorn with $100M round to supercharge its customer data platform . Industry : Real estate.

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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

GeekWire

NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. . Early Amazon employee and angel investor Meredith Han is now vice president of product at Seattle real estate startup FlyHomes. . Mavroudis joins the franchise from Hellosign where he was a technical program manager.

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

GeekWire

Speaking with GeekWire this week, Larson-Green said the time was right for the next phase of her life after helping Qualtrics get to its IPO by working to build key functions and teams including people operations, program management, data science and user experience. “The technology changes all the time. .

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. Former Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff.

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She helped lead the fight against Amazon’s return to office — and then had to leave a job she loved

GeekWire

.” After more than eight years at the tech giant, Hayter had come to expect that decisions large and small at the company were always rooted in data. “There was no data,” Hayter said. She said Jassy should be upfront about the real reasons and data — “the why” — behind making people return to the office.

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

We have a lot of really important and valuable data in those cities now that helps us build the self-driving tech stack. And we’re working on a number of vehicles, with both Ford and Volkswagen, and [our platform] will enable those vehicles to do real work in these major cities across the world. It’s sort of an amalgamation of things.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai. February 2022.