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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

TechCrunch

Compared to many other startups and scaleups, Proton has taken on very little venture capital (VC) funding in its nine-year history — aside from a small $2 million seed funding round back in 2015 and a $500,000 equity crowdfunder the previous year, Proton has managed to grow mostly through people paying money for its service.

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How IT and the Role of the CIO is Changing in the Era of Networked Organizations

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

There are similar efforts in the queue with the Commission’s change agents for 2015. I think this is a terrific example of how to use internal networks — social and otherwise — to rapidly engage — then actively enlist — change champions and supporters. And in the end, it came together.

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#define CTO OpenAI

Greg Brockman

Formation # In August 2015, OpenAI was just an idea articulated over a dinner with Elon Musk , Sam Altman , Ilya Sutskever , me, and a handful of others. Technical leadership should call the shots while still doing hands-on technical work. This struck me as the right way to run a project to build AI.