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The Fastest Growing Sectors of Startup Fundraising in 2020

Tom Tunguz

Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. Quality Assurance is truly about the automation of certain parts of software testing. The automation of QA is a secular trend that perhaps accelerated with more software engineers working from home.

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Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom

SaaStr

Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom Eric Yuan joined WebEx as one of the first several software engineers. He was instrumental in developing the WebEx videoconferencing technology and eventually became Vice President of Engineering. billion, and Yuan continued with the company as their Corporate Vice President of Engineering.

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What’s New at Greenhouse: $200M ARR, AI in the Real World, Going Big with PE, and More

SaaStr

Could something like the Greenhouse of 2015 even make it to market today? If one resume says software engineer and the other says developer, AI can converge these skills so people don’t slip through the cracks because they typed a title incorrectly. You could do vanilla 101 SaaS practices and succeed.

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Top 22 Full Stack Developers to Follow in 2022

Frontegg

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google 279.1K Author of a JavaScript book and blog about web development, Addy Osmani is a software development buff. While working at Netscape, Brendan Eich was one of the creators of the famous JavaScript language, which is still one of the main pillars of software development.

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Employee Spotlight: Sudipto Manna, Senior Software Test Engineer and Chef Extraordinare

FastSpring

In 2015 I was looking for something new outside of working in telecommunication that would be a new challenge for me, and I found out that ecommerce is one of the domains that would help me improve my current skills. What’s cool is that this plan has become the norm for all major telecommunication companies. How did you find FastSpring?

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How to Handle a Retreat: 16 Tips from Bufferoos as We Head to Cancún

Buffer Resources

Here’s who weighed in: Adnan Issadeen , Security and Compliance Engineer Years at Buffer: 8 Retreats attended: Madrid (2017), Singapore (2018), San Diego (2019) Åsa Nyström , VP Customer Advocacy Years at Buffer: 11 Retreats attended: San Francisco/Lake Tahoe (2013), Thailand (2013), Cape Town (2014), Sydney (2015), New York (2015), (..)

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How Google’s Search Engine Really Works (A Peek Under The Hood)

Neil Patel

RankBrain was first acknowledged in 2015 by Google engineer Greg Corrado: RankBrain has become the third-most important signal contributing to the result of a search query. Google’s been working on this technology for years to help the search engine handle the massive increases in volume without losing accuracy.