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.....»»
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.....»»
Twitter acqui-hires team from Reshuffle to work on its API platform
Twitter today is announcing what the company calls a “strategic acquihire” of the API integration platform Reshuffle. The startup’s commercial technology, which allows developers to build workflows and connect systems using any API,.....»»
Google Cloud hires Intel veteran to head its custom chip efforts
There has been a growing industry trend in recent years for large-scale companies to build their own chips. As part of that, Google announced today that it has hired long-time Intel executive Uri Frank as vice president to run its custom chip divisio.....»»
Biden administration hires more critics of Big Tech
President Biden is peppering his administration with some of the most lauded critics of Big Tech, with a British-born legal scholar now tipped for a role at the Federal Trade Commission......»»
Reddit Hires CFO As It Considers IPO
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Reddit, the social network and online bulletin, said on Thursday that it had appointed its first chief financial officer, Drew Vollero, in a move toward tidying up the company's books befor.....»»
Twilio to become minority owner in Syniverse Technologies with $750M investment
Syniverse Technologies, a company that helps mobile providers move communications across public and private networks, announced an extensive partnership with Twilio this morning. Under the agreement, Twilio is investing up to $750 million to become a.....»»
Toyota"s air taxi partner Joby to go public in $6.6 billion deal; firm hires Ford exec
Toyota is working with Joby to design a California manufacturing facility for its four-passenger eVTOL aircraft, and is sharing access to its supplier network, Joby executives said......»»
Twilio Inc. Announces Proposed Public Offering of Class A Common Stock
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Twilio Inc. (“Twilio”) (NYSE: TWLO), the leading cloud communications platform, today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of $1,000,000,000 of shares of its Class A common stoc.....»»
Astra hires longtime Apple veteran Benjamin Lyon as Chief Engineer
New Space startup Astra, which is currently focused on commercial rockets, but which plans to eventually build satellites, too, has hired one of Apple’s key engineering leaders to head its own engineering efforts. Benjamin Lyon spent over two d.....»»
Sinch acquires Inteliquent for $1.14B to take on Twilio in the US
After raising $690 million from SoftBank in December to make acquisitions, the Sweden-based cloud communications company Sinch has followed through on its strategy in that department. Today the company announced that it is acquiring Inteliquent, an i.....»»
How and when to build marketing teams at deep tech companies
When should deep-tech companies hire marketers, and do these hires need industry experience? Deep tech startups develop cutting-edge innovations with the power to truly revolutionize society. The founding team members at these companies oft.....»»
Rivian hires industry outsider as next CFO
With production of Rivian's first saleable units less than six months away, CEO RJ Scaringe has recruited Claire McDonough from J.P. Morgan......»»
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson says wisdom lies with your developers
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson knows a thing or two about unleashing developers. His company has garnered a market cap of almost $60 billion by creating a set of tools to make it easy for programmers to insert a whole host of communications functionality int.....»»
"Boomerang" performance is on par with internal employees who never left the firm, new paper finds
Organizations seeking to fill internal roles traditionally have two options: promote from within or hire externally. Internal promotions benefit from being vetted talent who possess firm-specific skills while outside hires harbor external knowledge t.....»»
Facebook hires a VP of civil rights
Facebook has hired Roy Austin to become its first-ever VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel to create a new civil rights organization within the company, Facebook announced today. Austin is set to start on January 19 and will be based in Was.....»»
Self-driving firm Cruise hires former Delta exec as COO
Former Delta COO Gil West, in a statement, said: "There will be no bigger shift in the transportation industry in my lifetime than the move to self-driving. I’ve been training my entire career for an opportunity like this one.".....»»
Twitter acqui-hires creative agency Ueno to help design new products
Twitter this morning announced it’s bringing the full-service creative agency Ueno in-house to work alongside Twitter’s own design and research teams. The move, an acqui-hire of sorts, is one where Twitter is essentially buying the agency.....»»
How Segment redesigned its core systems to solve an existential scaling crisis
The systemic issues became apparent the way they often do -- when customers began complaining. Segment, the startup Twilio bought last fall for $3.2 billion, was just beginning to take off in 2015 when it ran into a scaling problem: It was.....»»
VW hires energy-sector executive to lead EV charging unit
Elke Temme will head the group's newly created division for energy and electric-vehicle charging......»»