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 how Lynne Laube, co-founder and COO […]
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 retail. Featurespace was her first payments […]
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 Atlanta. Founded in March 2005 […]
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 in 2018 and is giving […]
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 and formerly incarcerated population. “I […]