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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

I feel like maybe the frame of our conversation is a little different — Argo makes self-driving hardware and software for cars. You make hardware and software that allows cars to drive themselves. Do you have any hardware demands? Is it the Ford program manager for a car? You don’t make cars. Make it better.”?

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

GeekWire

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. Somasegar , managing director at Madrona Venture Group.

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

Trends in the Living Networks

Her clients range from industries such as retail to telecom, banking to manufacturing, FMCG and real estate. 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. Twitter: @stafie_diana. Twitter: @BlakeMichelleM.

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