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TechCrunch+ roundup: Plaid’s staffing story, RevOps for B2B sales, demo day’s demise

TechCrunch

When Jean-Denis Greze accepted the CTO role at Plaid in 2017, the fintech company was still financing its Series A had “about 20 engineers who were still trying to feel their way to product-market fit,” writes enterprise reporter Ron Miller. .” How Plaid’s CTO grew his engineering team 17.5x Walter Thompson.

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Ample’s John de Souza on the merits of B2B, company culture and investors who get it

TechCrunch

Since then, he has founded multiple companies, including fintech company Smartleaf, internet startup Flash Communications and consumer health platform MedHelp, where his current co-founder, Khaled Hassounah, served as CTO. Depending on COVID-19 border restrictions, Ample is also targeting late next year to start building stations in Japan.

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Daily Crunch: Ledger locks down another $108M to double down on hardware crypto wallets

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Another fistful of wisdoms and nuggets: Taking on Twitter, too : Twitter alternative T2 launches new verification program and hires a Discord engineering head as CTO, Sarah reports Computer says no to fraud : Kyle reports that Oscilar emerges from stealth to fight transactions fraud with AI.

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Reveal raises $50M to espouse the benefits of partner ecosystems

TechCrunch

Business-to-business (B2B) companies are generating an increasing percentage of their revenue through partner ecosystems. But despite their growing importance, businesses haven’t necessarily adopted technology to foster partnerships, instead relying on spreadsheets and lengthy virtual or in-person meetings.

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Vista Equity to acquire majority stake in SaaS startup Drift, taking it to unicorn status

TechCrunch

The startup says it is out to ”reimagine the B2B buying experience,” according to Cancel. Basically, the company is trying to make the B2B buying/selling experience similar to that of a B2C one. At least 80% of B2B buyers are not only looking for, but expect, a buying experience similar to that of a B2C customer, according to Cancel.

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#749 The Revolution of Conversational Commerce with Michael Klein, Creative Tech Marketer & Consultant

Modern CTO

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Michael is working with tech providers, agencies, retailers, consumer brands and trade associations to improve their business strategy, storytelling, and GTM messaging to support business development and pipeline generation.

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Oxbotica raises $47M to deploy its autonomous vehicle software in industrial applications

TechCrunch

The startup has been around since about 2014, originally as a spinout from Oxford University co-founded by academics Paul Newman and Ingmar Posner — Newman remains at the startup as its CTO, while Posner remains an AI professor at Oxford. They include FiveAI, another hyped autonomous startup out of the U.K.

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