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Compass files S-1, reveals $3.7B in revenue on net loss of $270M

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In September 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company had lost a number of senior level individuals over the previous eighteen months including its chief financial officer, chief marketing officer and chief technology officer. Compass had its share of trouble before the pandemic.

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Twitter ‘acqui-hires’ the team from subscription news app, Brief

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Co-founder and CTO Andrea Huey, meanwhile, was a Google senior software engineer, who worked on the Google iOS app and had a prior stint at Microsoft. Hobbs said the team remains optimistic about the future of paid journalism, too, as Brief demonstrated that some customers would pay for a new and improved news experience.

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Coca-Cola Names Alan Boehme CTO, Replacing Jim Scholefield

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Coca-Cola has named Alan Boehme as CTO: Mr. Boehme has led Coke’s enterprise architecture, innovation and emerging technologies for the past four years. For more see: Coca-Cola Names Alan Boehme CTO, Replacing Jim Scholefield. She reports to Mr. Boehme.

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13 go-to podcasts that inspire IT industry leaders today

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Kelvin Franklin, field CTO at Illumio CIO Mind I find Gartner’s CIO Mind podcast to be especially insightful and relevant to the work I’m doing. Siddharth Ram, CTO of Velocity Global Service Management Leadership Hearing from other experts in the IT space has been very enlightening and even helped me grow in my own role.

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#738 The 2023 Tech Layoffs: Has the Dust Settled? with Brian Singer, Matt Peters, & Aaron Bare

Modern CTO

Today, we’re bringing you our first Modern CTO panel episode! All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! I am often focused on improving technology and exponential profits through creating warm decent human beings. with Brian Singer, Matt Peters, & Aaron Bare appeared first on Modern CTO.

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Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells which eventually could power AI

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Australian startup Cortical Labs popped up on the radar after Amazon CTO Werner Vogels flew down to Australia to visit their lab recently, and he even wrote about it, calling it “ intriguing ”. Cortical combines synthetic biology and human neurons to develop what it claims is a class of AI, known as ‘Organoid Intelligence (OI)’.

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#779 Leadership After Overcoming Depression with Mike Rubin, Founder and CEO at Northpond Ventures

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All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! I’ve also been fortunate to publish peer reviewed journal articles, author book chapters in leading texts, conduct clinical trials, engage in sponsored investigations, and lead research teams. To learn more about Northpond Ventures, check out their website here.