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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Milis Bio

Austin Startup

I know our CTO, Dr. Paul Young, closely follows developments in lab grown meats. All of this is located exactly at the crossroads between Europe and North America. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). It literally happened spontaneously while we were brainstorming the foundational idea for data.world, which initially was the brainchild of our brilliant co-founder and CTO, Bryon Jacob. and hopefully?—?grow data.world was no different.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. As the third U.S.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job. Pound vs. kilogram.

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