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Cast & Crew Taps PayPal Exec As Chief Technology Officer

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Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , which provides technology-enabled payroll and production-management services to the entertainment industry, has snagged a PayPal executive to serve as its new Chief Technology Officer. Cast & Crew is backed by private equity investor Silver Lake Partners.

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CTO Equity - Negotiation After Funding

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During that time one of the founders had mentioned that for the initial agreed time (3 months, equivalent dollars could be translated to 2% of equity but no agreement was reached at that time). I tried to argue that the equity should be what it was at the time I joined and discussed but there was no formal agreement at that time.

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Cast & Crew Names CTO

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Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , which provides technology and payroll and production management services to the entertainment industry, said it has named Alex Godelman as its new Chief Technology Officer. READ MORE>>.

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CTO Equity - Negotiation After Funding

SoCal CTO

During that time one of the founders had mentioned that for the initial agreed time (3 months, equivalent dollars could be translated to 2% of equity but no agreement was reached at that time). I tried to argue that the equity should be what it was at the time I joined and discussed but there was no formal agreement at that time.

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AutoAlert Buys MotoFuze

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Irvine-based AutoAlert , a provider of data mining and lead generation tools for auto dealerships, said Tuesday that it has acquired MotoFuze , a company developing customer experience management software for the auto industry. AutoAlert is led by Brian Skutta, and owned by private equity investor HGGC. MotoFuze was based in Kansas.

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

TechCrunch LA

The new financing will give Relativity the cash to fully build its “Stargate” factory, a semi-autonomous, full-scale production facility that will house the company’s massive 3-D printers and produce its first rocket, the Terran 1. space industry.

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

TechCrunch LA

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. This too shall pass.” — Balaji S.