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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

TechCrunch

In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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Apiumhub supports Craft Conference one more year

Apiumhub

Craft Conference returns in person for the first time since 2019! Craft Conference will cover: Language agnostic methods, best practices (tdd, bdd, ddd, ci, cd, security, performance, service oriented architecture etc.) that can be successfully leveraged by individual engineers. About Craft Conference. Check out the speakers!

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Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship — A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams

Gitprime

Hogan spent more than a decade leveling up engineering organizations and growing leaders at companies like Etsy (as an Engineering Director) and Kickstarter (as VP of Engineering). They run into the same struggles and the same problems she did, but there was no handy guidebook for them to consult along the way.

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From Engineer to Executive: An Interview with Eric Muntz of MailChimp

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

I couldn’t afford college and I ended up getting a job at a software company in Atlanta doing tech support, which then turned into a quality assurance job where I learned to write some scripts to test what I was testing. Engineers having seen that, then it turned into an Engineering 1 job, helping fix bugs and work on their software.