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Nextcast is personal success lessons from technology thought leaders. Watch and listen to this web series featuring long-form interviews with successful entrepreneurs and technology thought leaders, hosted by tech visionary Jeff Dickey. Featured regularly on GeekWire.com, the show is rapidly gaining a reputation as a must-watch for technologists across the Pacific Northwest and in the Bay Area.
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Stephen Purpura, CEO of Context Relevant
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Context Relevant CEO Stephen Purpura is working on the leading edge of big data — helping companies use their data more effectively. But Purpura, whose company scored $21 million from Bloomberg Beta, Madrona, Vulcan and others earlier this year, followed a career path many of his peers advised him against.After working at Microsoft, Purpura decided…
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Jon Jenkins Head Of Engineering At Pinterest
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Former Seattleite Jon Jenkins, the Head of Engineering at Pinterest, has taken the lead of a “super scrappy, super agile” team of engineers building one of the biggest social networks on the web today. Using billions -- or maybe even trillions -- of data points supplied by users around the world, he and his team are curating personalized experience…
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Alex Algard, CEO and Founder of Whitepages
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Though he’s only held one other job since college, WhitePages founder and CEO Alex Algard thinks he’s found a pretty good fit in his growing company. “I like the feeling of making an impact and a positive difference in the world,” he says of his role running a site that boasts over 50 million monthly users who come to them for contact information. …
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Janis Machala, Executive Dean of Continuing Education at Bellevue College
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As a one-time English PhD student, Janis Machala didn’t always know her career would lead her down a business path. But now she helps other people pursue their passions and get the education they need to achieve their dreams, as the Executive Dean of Continuing Education at Bellevue College. On this edition of Nextcast, I interviewed Machala and le…
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