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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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Prior to Amazon, Sharma co-founded LifeLemon, a consumer apparel e-commerce startup, led marketing at Flipkart, and was a developer at Oracle. Spitzer retired in 2017 from Google where he oversaw operations for Google Glass and developing VR hardware. She was also an associate at SoftBank Venture Capital in India. Saykara Photo).

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

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The company listed these key priorities for its security initiatives: Making its software, cloud services, firmware and hardware secure by design. He joined Amazon in 1998 when it acquired Server Technologies Group, an e-commerce software company that he founded in 1996 after leaving Oracle.

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Startups to watch: 13 venture capitalists offer their picks for the next Pacific Northwest unicorns

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Quote : “They’ve executed really well on building low-cost consumer hardware devices with a strong onramp to consumer adoption of computer vision and subscription services.” ” Co-founder and CEO : Yun Zhang , former instock manager at Amazon. ” CEO : Tushar Garg , former program manager at Microsoft.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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Blake has interviewed several power players in the industry, including the CEO of 1-800 Flowers, the CEO of Ace Hardware, and CMO of the Marriott, as well as many others. Rotich also co-founded Kenyan hardware company BRCK Inc. Twitter: @BlakeMichelleM. Nancy Murphy. Location: San Francisco, CA, USA.

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