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Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US

TechCrunch LA

Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform. To put that into context; Affirm’s financial report in May projected it would process $8.04 To put that into context; Affirm’s financial report in May projected it would process $8.04

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How Bill Gates Was A Role Model For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

At that time I couldn’t imagine a startup succeeding that was first called Traf-O-Data to process raw traffic data into reports, later changed to Microsoft to sell Basic Interpreters to microcomputer manufacturers. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

socalTECH

So, instead of just dealing with the consumer experience, we decided to tackle the problem head on and build an entire platform, and intelligent mortgage platform. For them to get to date with the times, to automate and build a platform, they'd have to reinvent and re-engineer their entire platform. It's plan and simple.

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I Knew Bill Gates When He Was a Regular Guy

Startup Professionals Musings

At that time I couldn’t imagine a startup succeeding that was first called Traf-O-Data to process raw traffic data into reports, later changed to Microsoft to sell Basic Interpreters to microcomputer manufacturers. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing.

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Mature Companies Can Learn Many Things From Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

At that time I couldn’t imagine a startup succeeding that was first called Traf-O-Data to process raw traffic data into reports, later changed to Microsoft to sell Basic Interpreters to microcomputer manufacturers. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

I was a principal engineer facilitating the integration and connectivity of the ServiceNow platform into these other systems. David Loo: Ultimately, at the C-level, the CIO requires data metrics and intelligence, in order to compete and make decisions and take actions to further a company's agenda. That's how we started.

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