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Jeff Kukowski Contributor Jeff Kukowski is CEO at CloudBolt, which helps companies automate easily, optimize continuously and govern at scale in hybrid and multicloud, multitool environments. With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand, IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals. Significantly reducing the amount of...

Uday Akkaraju Contributor Uday Akkaraju is CEO of BOND.AI, a global fintech firm offering an AI suite for financial institutions. Money creates a chain reaction; the more you have, the more you can earn. But it can have an exponentially adverse effect if you don’t have it. This holds true for...

Andy Stinnes, general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners, leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. More posts by this contributor Seed is not the new...

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Dear Sophie: Is...

Brian Spanswick Contributor Brian Spanswick is the chief information security officer (CISO) and head of IT at Cohesity. If there’s one thing that recent earnings reports from Microsoft, Google and Amazon made clear, it’s that their cloud businesses are booming. While the shift to the cloud is well underway, many companies aren’t...

Navin Chaddha Contributor Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield, an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. More posts by this contributor What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? Biology as technology will reinvent trillion-dollar industries For founders, especially those starting companies for the first...

Audrey Handem Contributor Audrey is a VC at Speedinvest, a pan-European early-stage fund. Adetola Olatunji Contributor Adetola Olatunji is a Columbia Business School MBA candidate, investor (formerly of New Profit and Kapor Capital), startup advisor and VC Fellow at BBG Ventures in NYC. Michelle Dhansinghani Contributor Michelle Dhansinghani is a Columbia Business School MBA candidate,...

Mehul Revankar Contributor Mehul Revankar is a cybersecurity professional with over 15 years of experience in vulnerability management, policy compliance and security operations. He leads the product management and engineering functions for VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) at Qualys. On December 9, 2021, a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting Apache’s Log4j2...

David Etue, CEO of Nisos, has 20 years of experience at early-stage and mature companies, bringing industry perspective built from experience including security program leadership, management consulting, product management and technical implementation. Companies invest significant time and energy to integrate networks and applications after an acquisition. However, the acquiring...

Marcelo Wiermann Contributor Marcelo Wiermann leads the global recommendations engineering division at Delivery Hero, one of the world's leading online food ordering and quick commerce companies. Recruiting a winning engineering team can be intimidating, especially for first-time and non-technical founders. I’ve served at multiple startups and established tech companies worldwide, and have...