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Fast-growing livestream shopping platform Whatnot acquires Pastel Labs, hires VP of engineering

TechCrunch

To aid on that front, Whatnot is making two key hires, one of which involves the acquisition of Pastel Labs, a company founded in 2020 by Jeff Chang , previously the technical lead for Pinterest’s growth team and a well-known growth advisor. Image Credits: Whatnot. ” 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Charity once said an off-hand sentence that became a mantra for my transition into the VP of Engineering role: “Directors run the company.” Being a good VP requires not getting lost in the weeds and risking losing sight of the bigger picture, even when it feels like there is a tantalizing opportunity for fast impact.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. That’s why the CTO’s attention is on programming for the earliest stage. What does the role demand?

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How prioritizing training and mentorship retains talent

CIO

Hear from three different employees about the unique training programs and opportunities they’ve had to develop their careers at Discover. Mentorship supports movement from college intern to VP of Application Engineering From day one as a college intern, Jason Burke was assigned a mentor to help him navigate his role.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Wijegunawardena recalls that ten or more years ago, when Box was a growing company, it could not spring for the high-end video chat systems for remote engineers, so they used Google Hangouts instead. “We Use high-touch onboarding.

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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

TechCrunch

The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far. The company has 15 employees so far and is looking to hire around half a dozen high-end engineers. He points out that his VP of Engineering is a woman. Activeloop image database. Image Credits: Activeloop.