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Book Review: Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics

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In the neutral corner… On the side of neutrality, she discusses the views of people including Demis Hassabis – DeepMind founder, Verner Vogels – Amazon CTO and others who argue broadly that technology is neutral but can be applied for good and bad. Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google 2010. Now Pentagon Advisor.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

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Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. The first time I ever walked into the Facebook office, the HQ in Palo Alto circa 2010, I was driving from the Google offices into the Facebook offices, and holy s**t, the difference.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

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Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

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Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. I started changing my answer not fast enough from I can do this for you to I’ll help you get it done with coaching resources tools and time right. Loneliness.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. With more drivers, rides would get cheaper and the wait terms would get shorter.

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

For everyone who joined in the early years – 2010 to 2014 – they’ve already hit their 4 year mark and many are spinning out. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. The really early folks are investing. The ATG / Otto folks are making moves as well.

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

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So it was always like and I finally I sold it in before I started Performable like 2010 and because I never thought it was a business. I keep learning part of learning is having access to different role models different mentors and then being able to look behind the curtain and say oh that’s how they do it right.