Tag: Talent
A new coalition for “Open Cap Table” presents an opportunity for equity transparency
Yifat Aran Contributor Dr. Yifat Aran is a visiting scholar at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and an Assistant Professor in Haifa University Faculty of Law. She earned her JSD from Stanford Law School where her dissertation focused on equity-based compensation in Silicon Valley startups. More posts by this…
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3 ways to become a better manager in the work-from-home era
Jeremy Epstein Contributor Jeremy Epstein is the chief marketing officer at Gtmhub, the world’s leading SaaS provider enabling the OKR (objectives and key results) goal-setting methodology. The average employee will prefer to work from home nearly half the time after the pandemic is over. Employees are also demanding flexible schedules…
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When it comes to diversity in hiring, businesses are their own worst enemy
Jonathan McBride Contributor Jonathan McBride is the former global head of inclusion and diversity at BlackRock and previously served as director of the Presidential Personnel Office in the White House. Rasheed Sabar Contributor More posts by this contributor Putting biases to work can be a strategy for better investment decision-making…
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Employee talent predictor retrain.ai raised another $7M, adds Splunk as strategic investor
Automation will displace 85 million jobs while simultaneously creating 97 million new jobs by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. Although that sounds like good news, the hard reality is that millions of people will have to retrain in the jobs of the future. A number of startups are…
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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers
This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. It’s a space many in the Nigerian ecosystem like to think is budding yet overcrowded. So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here…
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