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Top CTO Challenges for 2019

SoCal CTO

The LA CTO Forum recently conducted a survey to find out what our Chief Technology Officer (CTO) members saw as their biggest challenges heading into 2019. Here are the Top CTO Challenges for 2019 sorted based on scaled rating - biggest challenges first.

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Happy Money Names Interim CEO

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Winner previously served at such companies at Twitter, Stripe, and also was Chief Technology Officer for Marcus, Goldman Sachs' Consumer Business. He has been at Happy Money since early 2020, recently serving as Chief Operating Officer.

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Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX

TechCrunch LA

The former President of ExactTarget and later chief executive of Salesforce Marketing Cloud has made billions of dollars building products to help support customer service and now he’s back at it again with his latest venture MetaCX.

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Google spinoff Cartken and REEF Technology launch Miami’s first delivery robots

TechCrunch LA

The company, founded by ex-Google engineers and colleagues behind the unrequited Bookbot , was formed to develop market-ready tech in self-driving, AI-powered robotics and delivery operations in 2019, but the team has kept operations under wraps until now. This is Cartken’s first large deployment of self-driving robots on sidewalks.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

TechCrunch LA

. “We slow down our country, our economy and our ability to innovate when the government becomes excessively aggressive in efforts to break up technology companies, because they see them through a prior-decades lens, when they are operating in a future decade reality. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019. This too shall pass.”

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Relativity, a new star in the space race, raises $140 million for its 3-D printed rockets

TechCrunch LA

Relativity Space chief technology officer Jordan Noone next to one of the company’s 3-D printers. The company expects to secure a polar and Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) capable launch site by the end of 2019. Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi. ” .