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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.

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Squire Co-Founder and CEO Songe LaRon: Powering Barbershops of the Future

Y Combinator

We would literally haul this heavy barber chair to different coworking spaces, and bring the barber to the customers because we couldn’t get the barbershops to use it,” he says. This is why he’s insistent that building the right team and the right culture is critical to Squire’s success. The only problem?

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How Recovery from Addiction Helped Me Find My Professional Purpose

Entrepreneurs' Organization

But not everyone is as lucky: Whether it’s drugs or alcohol or both, addiction is sometimes based on family history and genetic heredity, sometimes triggered by environmental factors, but always dangerous and destructive to the addicted individual and his or her family, friends and coworkers.

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HK’s theDesk partners with office software platform Kumospace

AsiaTechDaily

As the first coworking space operator in Hong Kong to provide a truly “across space” solution for businesses, theDesk’s virtual work and collaboration platform is equipped with all essential features to support communication and collaboration, from video conferencing, presentation, screen sharing, chat to whiteboard, etc.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walk

That is to say, I DMed her on Twitter in 2016, impressed by the work she was doing but without a preexisting relationship. As a leader of teams within larger organizations, I was able to build phenomenal teams in terms of both delivery and culture. My teams always had a recognizable identity and subculture.

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Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2021

StartupNation

Their culture is flexible and collaborative, making it a top Detroit startup to work at, and they’re constantly innovating and helping small businesses find the banking tools they need. Ever need to reach out to a coworker but not sure how to find them or contact them? FinTech companies. Flow Video. Detroit Labs. Petram Data.

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myInterview raises $5 million for its video-based job recruitment platform

TechCrunch

MyInterview was founded in 2016 by Guy Abelsohn and Ben Gillman, after they became frustrated by how difficult it was to make their resumes stand out while job hunting. Of course, what makes a group of coworkers click can be hard to define, as with any other kind of relationship.

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