Twilio hires Reeny Sondhi as CDO and Amy Holcroft as CPO
Twilio announced two new hires. Reeny Sondhi joined the company as Chief Digital Officer, and Amy Holcroft joined the company as Chief Privacy Officer. Both roles are new to Twilio, as businesses increasingly look to digital channels to drive custome.....»»
Netflix hires former EA exec, could start offering video games within the next year
We heard back in May that Netflix was looking for a new executive to oversee its expansion into the lucrative video game businesses. The company said at the time that it was "excited to do more with interactive entertainment." Now, Bloomberg reports.....»»
Twilio’s new tools will let anyone add live video and audio to their apps
Twilio, a company best known for its tools that help developers build text message/phone call-powered apps, is branching out into a new category: live streaming. This morning the company announced Twilio Live, a platform meant to help developers more.....»»
Instacart hires Facebook executive as new CEO ahead of expected IPO
Instacart has appointed Facebook executive Fidji Simo as its new CEO, just seven months after she joined the grocery delivery company’s board of directors. Simo, formerly the vice president and head of the Facebook app, will replace Instacart found.....»»
Apple Hires Former BMW Executive for Its Rebooted Car Project
Apple has hired Ulrich Kranz, a former senior executive at BMW AG's electric car division, to help lead its own vehicle efforts. Bloomberg reports: The technology giant hired Kranz in recent weeks, about a month after he stepped down as chief executi.....»»
Segment launches customer journey tool to build fine-grained personal experiences
Twilio Segment announced a tool, which is available starting today, to help marketers create fine-grained customer journeys. Until now the company has enabled marketers to build buyer personas and broader audiences, but this enables users to have muc.....»»
Sinch snaps up MessageMedia for $1.3B to compete with Twilio in business SMS services
Sinch — the Swedish company that provides a suite of services for companies to build communications and specifically “customer engagement” into their services by way of APIs — has made yet another acquisition in its global march to scale up i.....»»
White House Hires Broadband Expert
Lisa Hone, a longtime Federal Communications Commission attorney with deep expertise in broadband policy, has joined the National Economic Council team to steer the Biden administration's broadband expansion efforts. From a report: Expanding broadban.....»»
Google hires former SiriusXM CPO/CTO to lead its Maps team
Almost exactly a year ago, Google announced a couple of leadership changes that saw Prabhakar Raghavan, who joined the company back in 2012, take over the lead of Search, Assistant and Maps. Now, sources familiar with the hiring tell us, the company.....»»
Twilio invests in adaptive communications platform Hyro
Hyro, formerly Airbud, is today announcing the close of a $10.5 million Series A financing round led by Spero Ventures, with participation from Twilio, and Mindset Ventures. Existing investors Hanaco Ventures, Spider Capital and Entrepreneurs Roundta.....»»
Sinch, a Swedish customer engagement giant, raises $1.1B, SoftBank and Temasek participating
Sinch — a Twilio competitor based out of Sweden that provides a suite of services to companies to build communications and specifically “customer engagement” into their services by way of APIs — has been on a steady funding an.....»»
Extra Crunch roundup: Selling SaaS to developers, cracking YC after 13 tries, all about Expensify
In an exclusive TechCrunch exposé, a founder shares the key lessons he learned while steering his startup through YC’s stringent selection process. Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, t.....»»
Hyundai hires its first-ever African American marketing agency
Maryland-based Culture Brands will get a broad remit as the Korean automaker courts Black buyers in the U.S......»»
Lucid hires Waymo veteran as CFO
Sherry House, who was treasurer and head of investor relations at Waymo, starts in her new role at Lucid this week......»»
10 Skills and Traits for Customer Experience Professionals in 2021 and Beyond
We asked industry leaders what the skills and traits are that they look for most when evaluating new customer experience hires. Continue reading........»»
Renault hires inventor of Apple"s Siri voice assistant to lead AI push
Renault has named Luc Julia, a global expert in artificial intelligence and one of the inventors of Apple's Siri voice assistant as its group chief scientific officer......»»
Apple TV+ plans to increase rate of original film production, hires ex-WarnerMedia film executive
According to a new report from The Information, Apple has hired away Jessie Henderson from WarnerMedia as the company looks to expand its investment in original film production. The new hire will join the Apple Original Films division as Apple look.....»»
Apple hires WarnerMedia executive Jessie Henderson as part of film push
Apple has reportedly hired former WarnerMedia executive Jessie Henderson as part of its effort to ramp up original film production for Apple TV+.Credit: WarnerMediaHenderson will join Apple TV+ as part of the entertainment team headed up by Jamie Erl.....»»
Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup
Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith talks about how to ensure the critical early hires are the right ones to grow a business. From building out Facebook’s first office in Austin to putting together most of Quora’.....»»
EQT Ventures promotes Laura Yao to partner; hires Anne Raimondi as operating partner
EQT Ventures, an investment firm based in Europe, which has raised over €1.2 billion ($1.4B USD) announced that it has promoted Laura Yao to partner. At the same time, the firm announced it recently hired Anne Raimondi, former SVP of Operations at.....»»
Amazon Hires Former Executive Adam Selipsky To Run AWS
Amazon has chosen Adam Selipsky to run its Amazon Web Services division. Currently, Selipsky is CEO of Salesforce-owned data-visualization software maker Tableau. Andy Jassy made the decision as the current head of AWS, after he was chosen to replace.....»»