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#781 Why Disruption Does More Harm than Good with Ashley Goodall, Author & Executive

Modern CTO

Produced by ProSeries Media. I am the co-author, with Marcus Buckingham, of NINE LIES ABOUT WORK: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Review Press, April 2019)—which was selected as the best management book of 2019 by Strategy + Business and one of Amazon’s best business and leadership books of 2019.

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

TechCrunch

In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends. And while social media, growing exponentially over the past decade, has changed the way we communicate and connect, it has also changed how we travel. Social media and travel.

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Top 10 Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2019

The Crazy Programmer

This data is according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019. 10 Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2019. This language can fetch the developers a salary much closer to around six-figure due to the dependency of Apple on this language. So, here is the list of a top paying programming languages in the market.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

TechCrunch

Soci provides customers marketing-focused workflows, a permissioning system, approval processes and analytics and management tools that integrate with popular ad networks. Beyond this, it delivers a database for consolidating marketing info including data from search, social media, reviews, surveys and chatbots.

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Operative Intelligence helps contact centers figure out what customers really need

TechCrunch

Operative Intelligence was founded in 2019 by brothers Peter and James Ianesk, who have spent 25 years working in customer service and contact centers. Those notes were analyzed by a team using the “5 Whys” system for finding the root cause of a problem. Its platform also breaks down customer inquiries into prioritized lists.

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ZineOne raises cash to help e-commerce companies predict customer behavior

TechCrunch

Deb previously co-founded EmPower, a firm that provided tools for social media research and media monitoring, while Malhotra started his own company, Social Lair, to build social media capabilities for large enterprises. As for Mukherjee, he left Oracle to launch Udichi, a compute platform for “big data” analysis.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

TechCrunch

Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Atrium (2017-2020). Periscope (2015-2020).