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

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Image Credits: Stream (opens in a new window). Stream, whose APIs help product teams build chat and activity feeds fast, just raised a $15 million Series A round. What is a trend worth watching is whether easy-to-integrate services like Stream’s might signal the proliferation of more social apps over time.

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

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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. But what did that look like, in practice?