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Interview with Mike Whitmire, CEO and Co-founder, FloQast

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For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. We were about a year out from our IPO when I joined, to work inside accounting. We're not an accounting system.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Jonah was working on his masters thesis and he asked Nike to produce a customized shoe with the word “Sweatshop” on it. For example, one product alone — Tasty — is consumed by 500 million people per month.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time.