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It’s been a big year for startups around the world, which saw a dramatic increase in funding in 2021 after a scary 2020. We looked at research firm CB Insights’ State of Venture report to check out the numbers for ourselves as the year comes to an end.

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Here’s How Much Money VCs Poured Into Startups Around the World in 2021

DoorDash has promoted two key execs, Tia Sherringham and Kofi Amoo-Gottfried to two new leadership positions.

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DoorDash's Tia Sherringham and Kofi Amoo-Gottfried

DoorDash Names a New General Counsel and Marketing Chief

The Org spoke with Novoa, CEO and co-founder of Favik, who shared a little bit of his entrepreneurship story, and told us all about how he ended up being a pioneer in the content creator economy. 

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Meet LatAm’s Newest Creator Economy Pioneer

The return of winter has brought back memories of March 2020 when businesses were caught off-guard and many restaurants and small retailers were completely devastated, with many yet to recover. But this was not the case for all businesses, as the abrupt shift to remote work led to new opportunities for certain industries. The Org identifies some of the areas that were not only able to survive the pandemic – but accelerated as a result of it. 

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Five Industries That Boomed During the Pandemic

Checkout.com has appointed former Meta executive Meron Colbeci as its first-ever Chief Product Officer.

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Checkout.com Picks Ex-Meta Exec to Lead Product

Longtime human resources leader Julie Currie tells The Org how she built her People & Culture team from scratch at a unicorn company about to go public.

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How This CPO Built a Brand New Team Ahead of a Public Listing

Disney has never stopped taking chances and now its portfolio now includes a range of famous entertainment companies as well as few surprises.

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What Companies Does Disney Own?

Warehouse AI software and robotics company GreyOrange has named Deborah Surrette its new Chief Commercial Officer.

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GreyOrange Selects a New Chief Commercial Officer

In our second annual list story, we combed through hundreds of tech companies to find out which ones are operating the most transparently. Take a look at who made our list. 

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The 100 Most Transparent Tech Companies of 2021

On Thursday, Adobe announced that Anil Chakravarthy and David Wadhwani would take on new roles at the storied software company. The company also revealed that its CTO, Abhay Parasnis, will depart in February 2022.

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Adobe's Anil Chakravarthy and David Wadhwani 

Adobe Announces Two New Presidents and CTO’s Departure

These are the most notable hires, promotions, and departures within the US tech community in the last week. For executive news updated daily, check out The Org's News tab.

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The Biggest Moves in Tech This Week

Amazon has selected Neil Lindsay, its former Amazon Prime head to lead its new unified health efforts.

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Amazon Names Prime Executive to Lead Healthcare Efforts

On Monday, entertainment giant SiriusXM revealed that Disney’s Joseph Inzerillo has accepted an offer to become its new Chief Product & Technology Officer. 

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SiriusXM Lures Disney’s Streaming CTO for Top Tech Post

Financial guidance app and website NerdWallet has found its new Chief Product Officer, John Caine, who brings 20-years of experience at companies like Vroom and Priceline.

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NerdWallet Picks John Caine as Its New Product Chief

Fastly has picked Margaret Arakawa to serve as the global edge cloud network provider’s next Chief Marketing Officer, effective immediately.

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Fastly Names Microsoft Veteran as CMO

The way public markets have repriced tech companies this year could have a lasting impact on new tech public listings into 2022 — not to mention the market disruption and hesitancy caused in part by COVID-19 that likely won’t go away in the coming months. Here are some of the tech companies we anticipate will go public next year.

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The Most Anticipated Tech Exits to Watch in 2022

On Friday, Better announced that the company’s Founder and CEO, Vishal Garg, would take a leave of absence after a little over a week since he made headlines by laying off 900 employees over a Zoom call. 


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Better’s CEO Steps Back After Blundering 900-Employee Layoff

Celebrating the end of the year and its many holidays hasn’t always been a big question for many companies, but that is changing. We took a look at the state of the office holiday party to find out which companies are doing one in-person, virtually, or something completely different.

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Is the Office Holiday Party Happening This Year?

The Org looked into Latin America’s leading growth marketing agencies to better understand what strategies they leverage to help brands get noticed. 

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The Social Opportunity

Alibaba Group revealed on Monday its CFO succession plans and announced a plan to merge its consumer-facing units into two teams: domestic and international. The Org explores the careers of the newly selected leaders at Alibaba and dives deep into the rest of its org chart to see who else is steering the billion-dollar e-commerce giant. 

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