Sentences with phrase «non-ceo tech executives»

Then there's this comment by a female tech executive McClure quotes: «There's a special place in Hell for women who «make it,» but aren't willing to turn around and help their peers who haven't.»

Brad and I had such a positive experience that we've committed to now leading a delegation of VC and tech executives in the Bay Area as soon as we can coordinate it.

It's been a mixed year for Participant Media, the production house owned by tech executive turned media mogul Jeff Skoll.

Back then, it was less common for non-CEO tech executives to have private planes.

The tech executive doesn't shy from politically charged topics like income inequality.

«While C - level personnel changes are important, Twitter has also been quietly hiring experienced tech executives — mostly from Google — for other departments,» Rao writes in a January 2013 Greencrest report on Twitter, which was made available to Inc. «The hiring of these seasoned executives suggests a possible positioning for an initial public offering in the next 12 to 18 months, in our view.»

By the beginning of this decade (as Fortune wrote at the time), tech executives were calling the area «Silicon Slopes.»

It's been a banner couple of years for Participant Media, the production house owned by tech executive turned media mogul Jeff Skoll.

Drop's app is highly rated, draws a young and enthusiastic user base, and the company has a founding team that includes a designer, alongside business and tech executives, Logan noted.

(Pascal Pilon, a Montreal tech executive, later invested in Landr and joined as CEO.)

While addressing tech executives at a White House - sponsored summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University, Obama said it is «hard» to navigate competing imperatives in the digital world's «sort of Wild Wild West.»

The tech executive said policy restrictions will make it more difficult for companies in the U.S. to remain competitive.

As a tech executive, it took me a year to make some mistakes and learn.

Now, as the Trump administration threatens to withdraw the U.S. from the deal, many tech executives, including executives at Tesla, HPE and Salesforce, are urging President Donald Trump to keep the U.S. in the agreement.

The mentors with whom the companies are paired for an hour at a time — VCs, tech executives, and angel investors — review the statements in advance, and come prepared for an in - depth discussion of how specifically to move the business forward.

Depends on who you ask, but most economists (and a lot of tech executives) believe the benefits of immigration far outweigh the costs.

The tacit endorsement of the event by top U.S. tech executives comes as China introduces strict new rules on censorship and data storage, causing headaches for foreign tech firms permitted to do business in China and signaling that restrictions banning others are unlikely to be lifted any time soon.

Although it's been more than two years since Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency's data snooping, U.S. officials and tech executives are still grappling with balancing national security and privacy.

Many young tech executives give up a fat paycheck to risk it all for start - up success.

Tech executives in Idaho, for example, are calling for the repeal of a 2016 noncompete law — one of the most restrictive in the nation — that impedes an employee's ability to change jobs.

And Zuckerberg could be part of a wave of tech executives seeking office in 2020: Y Combinator head Sam Altman is considering a gubernatorial bid in 2020 and Mark Cuban has flirted with the idea of running for president.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella this month became the latest tech executive to demonstrate, at best, a lack of understanding of the systemic discrimination facing women, suggesting that women not ask for raises in order to have «good karma.»

According to psychology experts and tech executives working to curb tech addiction, Benioff's analogy falls short.

«Law enforcement officials described him as stung by what they called Mr. Cook's «rant,» although tech executives in the room insisted that Apple's chief executive was respectful.

But he's not the only tech executive who's claiming that the smartphone could, one day, die.

The move represents the first big reversal of the controversial dual class stock structure that has been embraced by tech executives from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Snap's Evan Spiegel.

As a tech executive who often traveled on business, Aaron Easterly was constantly asking friends and family to care for Caramel, his beloved Pomeranian.

But Lauder and others stressed that in the end, tech executives and non-tech executives alike would be most likely to provide financial and intellectual support to causes that they flet most passionate about.

But he also routinely meets with young black tech executives coming out of Facebook, Google, and other Valley companies, and offers counsel where he can.

But the deceased tech CEO and many tech executives who serve on each other's boards (including Apple's, Google's, Intel's and Intuit's) were the focus of a recently settled class - action lawsuit.

Publicly embracing art — as well as crafts and fashion — was a way for her to rebel against what a tech executive was supposed to like, especially a female tech executive.

Prior to Weiss, taking the stage at Collision in Las Vegas this week, tech executive panelists discussed the business - to - business (B2B) marketing experience, in contrast to the business - to - consumer (B2C) one.

President Trump attempted to mend fences in a December meeting with tech executives but any détente that created has quickly faded.

Nonetheless, Trump appears unmoved by nationwide protests or any other signs of oppositions against clamping down on immigration, which leads me to wonder what are the risks that America, particularly tech executives, see that Trump does not?

Facebook and other tech executives appeared at hearings before House and Senate committees last fall to discuss the 2016 election and Russian influence of it, but it appears they may be headed for a trip back.

«In just the last 48 hours, I've spoken to a female tech executive who was grabbed by a male C.E.O. at a large event and another female executive who was asked to interview at a venture fund because they «feel like they need to hire a woman,»» said Dick Costolo, the former chief of Twitter, who now runs the fitness start - up Chorus.

«The world would lose if Facebook went away,» he said to a crowd of about 5,000 developers, tech executives and engineers — the kind of Silicon Valley audience he is at ease with.

On one hand, many tech executives have openly tried to engage with the president, a path that is typically good for business.

One by one, the honorees came forward to be recognized: the wounded veteran, the tech executive and the noted porn star.

Ted Homma, a tech executive and Zirx customer, recalls using the service last year for an event at San Francisco's Fort Mason.

He joins a growing list of male investors and tech executives who recently lost their jobs or faced public shaming over sexual harassment scandals as more women come forward to report incidents — a trend experts say is reshaping how Silicon Valley deals with allegations of inappropriate behavior.

As seasoned tech executive, award - winning marketing influencer, board member, angel investor and speaker, she writes for Entrepreneur.com, Huffington Post, and The Digitalist.

Our attendee list features hundreds of industry CEOs, policy leaders and financial services and enterprise tech executives (VPs / Directors / MDs and above), including:

Tech executive, board member, and angel investor Dr. Patti Fletcher recognizes those rules and then showcases the women who have found success by breaking them.

In San Francisco rising property prices have been blamed on the inflated salaries in the tech sector, and led to company buses carrying employees from the city to the sprawling tech campuses in the Valley being stoned by protesters — what one tech executive described to me as «the Google bus piñata».

A key, early goal of the visit: Butterfield said he and three fellow CBC members plan to ask tech executives to attend a public «summit» focused on diversity.

Jeremy is a seasoned health tech executive having led multiple large - scale initiatives in the $ 100m - $ 1b range, particularly complex change programs.

The Apple executive joined fellow tech executives in December 2016, before Trump officially entered the White House, at a session designed to foster a peace between the new president - elect and some of his most outspoken critics.

Andre De Castro, a tech executive, software technologist, crypto - currency specialist, and finance enthusiast, has been actively engaged in the crypto - currency...

Before promising to distribute them to the crowd, Conway urged tech executives, engineers and lobbyists alike to spread the message on social media and contact their elected officials.