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Fortis Digital Ventures closing $100 million raise for new crypto fund

TechCrunch

The new fund will be run by former hedge fund veterans and engineers, including Boroughs, who previously co-founded an RIA that had $250 million in assets under management, and his co-founder, Chris Capriccio, formerly VP of engineering at LegalZoom. million or higher, a spokesperson said.

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Scaling Engineering Teams from 5 to 500 and Beyond

Gitprime

You can watch the entire webinar here , or read on for six highlights from the discussion with Randy Shoup , the VP of Engineering at WeWork; Cornelia Davis , the Senior Director of Technology at Pivotal; and Saminda Wijegunawardena , the Vice President of Engineering at Box. There are ways that you can acknowledge that.”.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

So-called “tech debt” could amount to more than two thirds of the different types of work an engineer might touch , if you apply the label broadly. Of course all of this work could make up a significant portion of a responsible engineer’s quarter or year. Struggling to negotiate time for tech debt?

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

Nightingale recently sat down with GitPrime’s CEO, Travis Kimmel , for an episode on Software Engineering Radio. Their conversation covered everything from how startups should think about management and how to hire for it, to “troubleshooting” management. You usually only have one VP of engineering,” Nightingale says.

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Travelling Turns Smarter With Mobile Ticketing Apps – Here’s How!

Xicom

The course of achieving every citizen’s heart is full of intricacies and convolution due to many decisive factors, and smart technologies are a stepping stone towards achieving it. Citizen Satisfaction is the key to unlock the heart of every forward thinking city.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.” Wijegunawardena recalls that ten or more years ago, when Box was a growing company, it could not spring for the high-end video chat systems for remote engineers, so they used Google Hangouts instead. “We Use high-touch onboarding.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Lara: Of course there’s a donut in there, you know a little merit badge that says kept going because we got to celebrate the fact that this yeah. And when you said tools, of course, I started thinking about spreadsheets, and then I realized it’s a box. Marcus: Why did you feel this was the right time for this book?