Hackers Succeed in NASA Mission, Lifting Thousands of Employee Records
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Category Archives: Personnel
Shasta Ventures is doubling down on security startups with 3 new hires
Shasta has hired former Symantec GM Balaji Yelamanchili, former Salesforce CISO Izak Mutlu and longtime enterprise software exec Drew Harman to focus on security. Continue reading Shasta Ventures is doubling down on security startups with 3 new hires
Zenefits’ Parker Conrad returns with Rippling to kill HR & IT busywork
Parker Conrad likes to save time, even though it’s gotten him in trouble. The former CEO of Zenefits was pushed out of the $4.5 billion human resources startup because he built a hack that let him and employees get faster insurance certifications. But 2.5 years later, he’s back to take the busy work out of […] Continue reading Zenefits’ Parker Conrad returns with Rippling to kill HR & IT busywork
Facebook poaches leaders of Refdash interview prep to work on Jobs
Facebook just snatched some talent to fuel its invasion of LinkedIn’s turf. A source tells TechCrunch that members of coding interview practice startup Refdash including at least some of its executives have been hired by Facebook. The social network confirmed to TechCrunch that members of Refdash’s leadership team are joining to work on Facebook’s Jobs […] Continue reading Facebook poaches leaders of Refdash interview prep to work on Jobs
Drone startup Airware crashes, will shut down after burning $118M
Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Google’s GV, and Kleiner Perkins. The startup ran out of money after trying to manufacture its own hardware that couldn’t compete with drone giants like China’s DJI. The company at […] Continue reading Drone startup Airware crashes, will shut down after burning $118M
Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics
When we think about designing our dream home, we don’t think of having a thousand roommates in the same room with no doors or walls. Yet in today’s workplace where we spend most of our day, the purveyors of corporate office design insist that tearing down walls and bringing more people closer together in the […] Continue reading Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics
Google Cloud’s COO departs after 7 months
At the end of last November, Google announced that Diane Bryant, who at the time was on a leave of absence from her position as the head of Intel’s data center group, would become Google Cloud’s new COO. This was a major coup for Google, but it wasn’t meant to last. After only seven months […] Continue reading Google Cloud’s COO departs after 7 months
Sprinklr hires former fed CIO Vivek Kundra as COO
Sprinklr, the unicorn startup best known for helping customers interpret social signals has been moving into the broader customer experience market in the last year. Today it announced is was hiring a heavy hitter as Chief Operating Officer, bringing in former federal CIO and Salesforce executive Vivek Kundra. He began working at his new position […] Continue reading Sprinklr hires former fed CIO Vivek Kundra as COO
Akamai has laid off 400 workers or 5 percent of global workforce
Akamai, the Cambridge Massachusetts content delivery network and network services provider, announced they had laid off 400 people in their earnings call with analysts yesterday. On the call, Akamai CEO Tom Leighton indicated that the 400 people … Continue reading Akamai has laid off 400 workers or 5 percent of global workforce
Storm Ventures brings on two new partners at enterprise-focused firm
In a town full of venture capital firms, Storm Ventures has made its mark with a singular focus on the enterprise. This week, the company announced it has taken on two freshly minted partners, Arun Penmetsa and Paul Willard, to continue the missi… Continue reading Storm Ventures brings on two new partners at enterprise-focused firm