article thumbnail

Unybrands brings in $300M to acquire more e-commerce businesses

TechCrunch

Unybrands looks for brands across eight categories, including baby, garden and outdoor, sports and fitness and personal care, and provides capital and resources to grow those brands. We’ve been able to accelerate our business plan across all fronts, including acquisitions, technology and team building.

Sport 250
article thumbnail

Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

CIO

So students should learn about how to use the technology, and how to manage teams that use the tools — especially engineering teams. Building a team is becoming much more complicated because the inherent tendency among technical individuals to work alone is enhanced by AI,” says Lev Gonick, CIO of Arizona State University.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

TechCrunch

The company already has amassed a list of notable customers, including Ikea-owned TaskRabbit, NBC Sports, Unilever, Delivery Hero, Gojek, eToro and Stanford University, as well as a number of others that it’s not disclosing across healthcare, education, finance, virtual events, dating, gaming and social.

CTO Coach 271
article thumbnail

Three steps to the next big opportunity

Lead on Purpose

The crucial habit for progress is watching, learning and becoming aware of trends and changes going on around you. The teams that have people who work together win. Even in so-called “individual sports&# such as running, race car driving or gymnastics, the athletes depend on many other people for their success.

article thumbnail

Finding Career Opportunities Through Experimentation with Josh Doody

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

And maybe I’ll give sports analogy really quickly, which is-. You can do this in pretty much any sport where this happens. Marcus: I love the sports metaphor. And I think there’s kind of like a trend, right? Marcus: Do it. Josh: Let’s talk about American football. And so I end up getting laid off.

article thumbnail

After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? Any area that is exposed to mass physical engagement (pockets in travel, food, sports, etc.) What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? Noam Kaiser , partner, Intel Capital.

article thumbnail

On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Alignment is your most important deliverable Most execs — at least the good ones — spend a lot of time on something that can be completely invisible to their teams: building alignment at the executive level. Are our teams thriving? But what did that look like, in practice? Is there friction?