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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch LA

In numerous interviews throughout the past two years, Weiss and other executives have emphasized the company’s focus on its direct-to-consumer online shipping model and obsession with iterating the customer experience based on feedback. billion valuation from Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia, Forerunner Ventures and others.

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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello! Thanks to his custom blurb, instead of closing his browser and feeling inadequate for the rest of the day, Mark completes his bio and becomes a happy customer. Which means better conversions and happier customers.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

socalTECH

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Blackline / Therese Tucker - Tucker was CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and knows her customers--finance folks at enterprise firms--well.

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Emotive Finds $50M In Series B

socalTECH

Motive provides conversational text messaging used by e-commerce brands to simulate human interaction with customers, with the aim of preventing cart abandonment, promote new sales and product releases, and more. Wald was previously at SalesLoft and Salesforce, and Pylnev was formerly at Honest Company and SpaceX.

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Stitch Fix CTO Polinsky Says Its Style Shuffle App Makes Data Fun

Xconomy

When Cathy Polinsky became chief technology officer of Stitch Fix in late 2016, she knew one of the San Francisco-based company’s key challenges was continually refining its core software algorithm to make sure customers received the right tailored suggestions in their monthly wardrobe boxes. So, she made it into a game.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

socalTECH

We''ve got a grid of 500 nodes, handling a billion and a half clicks and call impressions, which we drive for our customers. So, we''ve been looking at creating a create advertiser relationships with consumers, and enabling commerce. We''re coining the term search commerce. When did the split with AT&T happen?

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

socalTECH

We''ve got a grid of 500 nodes, handling a billion and a half clicks and call impressions, which we drive for our customers. So, we''ve been looking at creating a great advertiser relationships with consumers, and enabling commerce. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent?