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Fast-growing livestream shopping platform Whatnot acquires Pastel Labs, hires VP of engineering

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To aid on that front, Whatnot is making two key hires, one of which involves the acquisition of Pastel Labs, a company founded in 2020 by Jeff Chang , previously the technical lead for Pinterest’s growth team and a well-known growth advisor. But the team kept building, understanding that live and social commerce in the U.S.

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The CIO’s call to action on gen AI

CIO

Palmer is one of the world’s top AI experts and a longtime industry veteran who is educating and advising companies on how to approach and harness this new technology. Anna Ransley, a CD&IO known for her work at Godiva and Heineken, among others, has been advising boards and C-suites about generative AI strategy, risks, and opportunities.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

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Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Let me explain.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

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We started with SEM/SEO but over time as we grew, we used many channels to acquire customers like Social media, Biz dev, Trade shows, SEM, SEO, Inbound marketing and high touch sales for Enterprise customers. We have cache filers nodes based on tomcat/Nginx/local file system and it acts in LRU fashion. How do you market your product?