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One Year Post-IPO, Cardlytics Co-Founder Lynne Laube Shares What She Knows Now

The rash of recent tech IPOs — Lyft going first last month, then PagerDuty, Zoom, Pinterest, and more to come— has startup enthusiasts and investors eagerly watching the markets. But beyond the headlines and listing prices, the road to an IPO is a long and laborious one. "Arduous," is

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Why One Fintech CEO Says You Can't Build the Best Products Without A Diverse Workforce

Martina King sees her tech teams as a crime fighting force. As CEO of payments fraud prevention company Featurespace, King oversees a workforce 200 strong across two continents. The UK-based executive, named one of the most influential women in payments, joined the company following executive roles in media, technology, and

MomoCon, the Southeast's Biggest "Geek Culture Convention", And Its Roots As A Bored Student's Experiment

MomoCon, the Southeast's Biggest "Geek Culture Convention", And Its Roots As A Bored Student's Experiment

When Jessica Merriman first enrolled as a Georgia Tech student, she was studying neurosurgery. By the time she graduated, she had become the co-founder of what is now one of the largest gaming, anime, eSports, and comics conventions in the southeast. MomoCon is an “all-ages Geek Culture Convention” held in

Caroline Dunn

Meet the Only Woman In the Top 10 Of Amazon's Alexa Skills Challenge

Since Amazon launched the Echo Show, the first Alexa device with a screen, the company has been encouraging developers to modify Alexa Skills to make them more visual. That was the impetus for the Multimodal Alexa Skills Challenge, a contest judging Alexa Skills with visual components. The Challenge, which opened

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Hannah Hill Is Helping Incarcerated Juvenile Girls Get Jobs At Top Tech Companies

Hannah Hill was planning to become a prison chaplain to help women caught in the unremitting cycles of the justice system. But when she taught herself to code to build a simple website, she realized that there might be a more direct, albeit experimental, way she could help the current

Allie Kelly

The Ray's Allie Kelly Is Driving Into the Future On the World's Only "Living Lab" Highway

“My guess is that you don’t spend much time thinking about the road at all,” the TEDxAtlanta presenter tells her captive audience. “There’s been almost zero innovation in the road itself in over 70 years.” The speaker is Allie Kelly, and she’s on-stage to share how we

The Weather Company's Cameron Clayton On What Worked Through the IBM Acquisition

The Weather Company's Cameron Clayton On What Worked Through the IBM Acquisition

When IBM acquired The Weather Company in 2015, it was reported that close to 900 employees of the Atlanta-based weather operation would transition into the global enterprise. The strategic acquisition was made to power IBM Watson's Internet of Things unit and build out more offerings in the cloud