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EC-exclusive interview with Tim Cook, Slacklash, and tech inclusion

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Great teams, UBI, data retention policies, and Amazon HQ2

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Final Niantic EC-1 lessons, F8 call, Slack, WeWork, and TED

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Cushion wants to negotiate bank service fees on your behalf

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What we want to know in the We Company (WeWork) S-1

With news that the We Company (formerly known as WeWork) has officially filed to go public confidentially…

The demise and rebirth of the ethical engineer

Whatever happened to the ethics of engineering? We’ve seen just one disastrous news story after another…