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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Alan completed his schooling at Brooklyn Technical School in New York. In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997. In 1997, his friend recruited him as the head of research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering and became a Disney Fellow.

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Nigerian digital bank Carbon hit $240M in payments processed last year, up 89% from 2019

TechCrunch

million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012. When Chijioke Dozie, the CEO, spoke to TechCrunch in 2019, he cited recruitment purposes and clientele trust as reasons why the company made its financials public — an exercise it has done every second quarter for two years. billion (~$241.35

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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. When it came to raising a Series B, Merchant says the company struggled to close and lost investor interest due to WeWork’s failed IPO. IfOnly (2012-2020).

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How to Hire Tech-Savvy Teachers for Blended Learning

PowerSchool

Online recruiting and hiring became an overnight necessity as a result of COVID-19 school closures, but this only accelerated a growing trend. Today’s college graduates have only known the convenience of a digital world, so serve them an experience that meets their seamless, high-tech expectations.

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Robert Sweeney on the Hard Lessons Learned from Launching Startups

DataRobot

A recent visitor to our podcast, Robert left Netflix in 2012 to become something of a serial tech founder. He’s launched three companies: Attack Pattern, a software-development company; Numetric , an SaaS analytics firm; and most recently Facet , a technical-recruiting operation. No recruiters—it’s all private.

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Why Do Most Startups Struggle to Scale?

Modus Create

Relentless pursuit of growth can also lead to overlooking other strategic aspects of business such as technical debt. In 2012, a competitor entered the market. This can jeopardize their growth because no one is immune to disruption in today’s age, least of all technology companies. Ignoring Data Security.

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Going 100% SaaS

CTOvision

I was first introduced to SaaS (then ASP) in January 2000 when I joined Brassring, a rollup of 9 small companies in the Recruitment space, as its first CTO. Within a few months of joining Brassring, I realized that this was the how Enterprise technology will be delivered in the future. Why do I like SAAS? Broad device support.