Bessemer Venture Partners : Closes $3 3 Billion Across Two Funds; Welcomes Amazon com Veteran Jeff Blackburn as Partner
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Visual developer tools
At first, a developer might resist the idea that visual tools can help in coding. But once you look for it, you see it everywhere.
Visual development environments
With a 51% market share, the most popular development environment these days is VS Code, despite only being released in 2015. What explains its meteoric rise in popularity over simpler code editors like Notepad++, Atom and Sublime? Among other things, it offers a point-and-click interface for search, file navigation, type hints, customizing settings, adding extensions, and so on. That’s what it and other full-featured IDEs provide over simpler tools. In fact, Dark Lang recently coupled IDE and language, taking the IDE and visual coding metaphor to an even higher level by guaranteeing that you can t write invalid code because the IDE won t let you. Nobody argues that this is illegitimate coding.
Is overseeing cloud operations the new career path to CEO?
At Microsoft, IBM and Amazon, signs point to yes
When Amazon announced last week that founder and CEO Jeff Bezos planned to step back from overseeing operations and shift into an executive chairman role, it also revealed that AWS CEO Andy Jassy, head of the company’s profitable cloud division, would replace him.
As Bessemer partner Byron Deeter pointed out on Twitter, Jassy’s promotion was similar to Satya Nadella’s ascent at Microsoft: in 2014, he moved from executive VP in charge of Azure to the chief exec’s office. Similarly, Arvind Krishna, who was promoted to replace Ginni Rometti as IBM CEO last year, also was formerly head of the company’s cloud business.
Syndio, a Seattle, WA-based EquityTech analytics platform, raised $17.1m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Next Play Capital, Concrete Rose Capital, Emerson Collective and Voyager Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Syndio added Byron Deeter and Talia Goldberg from Bessemer to the board.
The company intends to use the funds to drive rapid product development across opportunity equity, benchmarking, and workforce analytics, continue to build more solutions for starting pay and ongoing compensation adjustments with fairness and equity baked in at every stage of decision making.
Founded in 2017 by pay equity attorney and Ph.D. Zev Eigen, who serves as the company’s Chief Science Officer, and led by Maria Colacurcio, CEO, who joined as CEO in 2018, Syndio provides PayEQ, which is used by over 100 companies to analyze and resolve pay disparities based on gender, race, or ethnicity across 2.3 million employees. C
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