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Author: Michelle Kung
Michelle Kung currently works in startup content at AWS and was previously the head of content at Index Ventures. Prior to joining the corporate world, Michelle was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, the founding Business Editor at the Huffington Post, a correspondent for The Boston Globe, a columnist for Publisher’s Weekly and a writer at Entertainment Weekly.
For Tigera’s Ratan Tipirneni, Technology is the Easy Part
Tigera, a San Francisco-based software company founded in 2016, helps businesses secure and provide compliance for their container-based applications.
Behind the Scenes of Nuna Health with Clint Talbert
To hear Clint Talbert, Nuna’s Head of Government Engineering & Data Science, speak about trust is to understand how vital it is to the healthcare technology company.
How Vice Media Tamed 12 Verticals in 18 Different Languages
VICE had a large-scale problem to solve. Their ecosystem had become too large in terms of the number of brands they supported—they currently have sites in 35 different countries in 18 languages, which read in different characters and directions—and their engineering team wanted to make sure the reading experience worked well for everyone.
Inside Indonesia’s Hot Startup Scene
Indonesia, the fourth largest country in the world with 262 million people, is a fertile ground for startups. But that wasn’t always the case.
Living Goods Uses Smartphone Tech to Bring Health to Rural Communities
In 2007, Chuck Slaughter launched his new social enterprise, Living Goods, in Uganda, “borrowing from the Avon playbook.” But instead of going door-to-door selling lipstick and hand creams, Living Goods’ community health workers arrive on local doorsteps offering medical services, health education, medicines, and health products.
Majal Champions Minority Rights
Growing up in Bahrain, Esra’a Al Shafei saw the damage that authoritarian regimes could inflict on minority voices, political outliers, and the causes of social justice. From a young age, she felt an enormous sense of responsibility to take action.
Distributed Media Lab’s Chief of Technology on Why He Wanted a Serverless Architecture
Sam Parnell has been an AWS evangelist most of his career. While Chief Technology Officer at popular sports news site Bleacher Report, he ran the company “100 percent on AWS.” When Turner Broadcasting acquired Bleacher Report in 2012, Parnell got involved with aspects of the media giant’s infrastructure, and again started moving critical operations into the cloud.
The Startup’s Guide to re:Invent 2018
The Startup’s Guide to re:Invent includes of the key moments from the overall re:Invent schedule, and the startup-specific sessions.
The Business of Geeking Out: Product Hunt CEO Ryan Hoover Lives His Love of Product Discovery
“I think building successful companies and products relies a lot on speed,” says Ryan Hoover, founder and CEO of Product Hunt, an online informational hub for and about startups. “It’s a matter of just how quickly can you figure out which ones will work and which ones won’t.”
How HackerOne Uses the Cloud to Fix Security Vulnerabilities at Scale
83,000. That’s how many security vulnerabilities HackerOne has fixed to date thanks to hacker-supplied reports to their platform. “The data speaks for itself,” says Reed Loden, HackerOne’s director of security. “The types of vulnerabilities, the complexity to the vulnerabilities, the cleverness to the vulnerabilities is stuff that you’re just not going find from paying just a variety of security consultancy firms… it all comes down to number of people.”