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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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The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini

SaaStr

A Merger of Two Personas — Software Engineer and ML Engineers Ten years ago, your data stack involved systems that produced data. Now, those ML engineers are becoming part of the core workflow. In 2017 or 2018, it was easy to prospect in companies. First, let’s touch on how sales has changed over the years.

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Building Resolution Bot: How to apply machine learning in product development

Intercom, Inc.

New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. Resolution Bot took us just under a year to build, from first prototype in November 2017 to launch. We can’t assume the ML will always perfectly do what we want. A year in the life of a bot.

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Inside Apple Software Design

Andreessen Horowitz

In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.

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

Buffer Resources

All their wisdom fell into two buckets: Making the most of your time and taking care of yourself, so I’ve broken it down based on these categories.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

Todd: The fact that you’re talking about problem selection and solution validation suggests that you’re really looking for engineers who are problem-oriented and focused on outcomes. Our software engineers are actually called product engineers internally for that reasons. We’re that way too.