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Former Uber CTO Thuan Pham joins South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang

TechCrunch

Thuan Pham, who stepped down as Uber’s chief technology officer and longest-serving top executive in May, has a new job in South Korea. Coupang , the country’s largest e-commerce company by market share, announced today it has hired Pham as its new CTO. For Pham, joining Coupang, a SoftBank-backed unicorn that holds a 24.6%

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#758 Inside the Exponential World of the Morpheus Project & Decentralized Tech with David Johnston, Technologist in Web3 & AI

Modern CTO

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! For booking inquiries, email booking@proseriesmedia.com About David Johnston Created the framework for “Dapps” in 2013 & “Smart Agents” in 2023. To learn more about Morpheus, visit their website here. Have feedback about the show? Let us know here.

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A CTO’s Guide To The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley You know the top federal IT news of 2013, after all, you probably lived it. None of them were really about technology. The really interesting stories, at least from a CTO perspective, are big technology mega trends that are forcing change and positive improvements in enterprise IT.

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NetApp acquires Instaclustr to deliver open source databases as a service

TechCrunch

Ben Bromhead, CTO and co-founder at Instaclustr sees the two companies producing a logical combination for customers. “From a technology and product perspective, NetApp’s powerful infrastructure solutions pair perfectly with Instaclustr’s data-layer-as-a-service solutions and services,” he said in a statement.

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Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, raises $4.6M

TechCrunch

Sehwail’s entrepreneurial journey started after college in 2013, when he developed enterprise web software for the likes of BMW, a business that also inspired his Userpilot strategy. As investors focus more on profitability, product-led startups may be sitting pretty.

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Lightyear is a new stock trading app from early Wise employees

TechCrunch

Mihkel Aamer , Lightyear’s other co-founder and CTO, was an engineering lead at Wise between 2013 and 2019. There are also several business angels participating in today’s funding round, including Checkout.com CTO Ott Kaukver, former President of Robinhood UK Wander Rutgers, and Veriff founder Kaarel Kotkas.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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