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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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Super raises $50M to cover home repairs and maintenance via a subscription model

TechCrunch

The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. Indeed, Super these days seems to refer to itself as an “insuretech” ). It’s also preventative care.

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20 influential women in software development

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She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. Moreover, Mala co-leads Delhi Java User Group and Women Who Code Delhi, she drives initiatives for diversity advocacy for Women in Technology. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez. LinkedIn. 10 – Liz Keogh.

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Introducing Engineering Management to a Growing Organization

Gitprime

At Raw Signal Group , Nightingale conducts leadership and management training with hundreds of fast-growing tech companies. Before transitioning into coaching and consulting, he was the VP of Firefox for Mozilla through a period of intense turmoil (during which he helped build and launch the first Firefox offerings on Android and iPhone).

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

Gitprime

Taking on an engineering leadership role can be disorienting for fresh recruits from the engineering ranks and seasoned veterans alike. 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).

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How Splice Builds Globally Distributed Engineering Teams

Gitprime

One of the primary reasons to build a distributed engineering organization is that a company is not limited by geographic boundaries. For the last ten years, Buriticá has successfully been building and scaling distributed engineering teams and Latin American open source software communities. Leila Jana CEO of Sama Group.

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Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

There’s the group of folks that are scared because of the amount of responsibility resting on their shoulders. They know that they’re responsible for people’s careers and livelihoods and like business objectives, there’s that kind of grouping of fears. And I see this again in management. It’s hard.