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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

In 2015, the Chief Technology Officer at the White House, Todd Park, mentioned I ought to meet with the Department of Defense who were thinking of creating the Defense Digital Service , a DOD version of United States Digital Service. So you have to find that partner that has a belief in solving a problem. How Will AI Be Used?

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. to attend Carnegie Mellon University.

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“Change is hard and change is slow. But I think we’re on the right track.” CODE2040’s Laura Weidman Powers on Diversity in Tech

Hunter Walker

We chose the name CODE2040 as a call to action: the year 2040 is the year that people of color will be the majority in the United States, and we want to see a tech industry that reflects the country by that time. That lead to TAP (Technical Applicant Prep Program), the pilot of which was funded by Google.org.

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Will Millennials Change Manufacturing?

Duct Tape Marketing

Bianco’s generation now makes up the largest in the United States — 83.1 “It’s a neat idea to walk around and talk to people as business partners. When the company was developing the X7 printer, Mark emphasized to the company’s software engineers the need for very precise dimensional accuracy.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. Briefly: Level 8 is for interns.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. And in those three cities, we are the largest actor in the United States that is doing this work that is advancing this thesis.

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