Akash Garg
@akashgarg
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Advisor / Investor. Formerly: @MoonPay, @afterpayusa, @uber, @twitter, @bebo, @hi5
San Francisco
Joined September 2007
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A high-quality CTO or VPE should be very technical and passionate about coding. This person should be able to submit, review, and deploy PRs, regardless of whether the company is a startup, Series B, or public company. #CTO #VPE #leadership
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1/ We are thrilled to announce 3 more advisors to help crypto founders scale to 1 billion users: + Elad Gil (@eladgil) renowned investor, author, & founder + Rebecca Rettig (@RebeccaRettig1) CPO at Polygon Labs + Akash Garg (@akashgarg) ex-CTO at Afterpay (acq for $29b) 👇
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NEWS: @moonpay partners with @UniStudios & @UniversalORL to drop up to 7 million NFTs for a “Halloween Horror Nights” scavenger hunt. 🌐 CEO @isotowright explains how this could be a gamechanger for mainstream adoption.
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I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined @moonpay as CTO to help onboard the world to web3! We are hiring, please see our open roles here:
moonpay.com
Check out our current open positions and join MoonPay's mission to make crypto accessible to over a billion people by 2030!
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Want a truly open foundation for your data? Meet Onehouse! We raised a seed round from @Greylock and Addition, to build a fully-managed lakehouse service on top of @apachehudi. Say hello to the future of data! Follow us for more, check out our intro blog.
techcrunch.com
Traditionally, a data lake was a place to store amorphous unstructured data, while a data warehouse was where you put very structured data like credit
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1) 📢 Announcing Alliance DAO 📢 DeFi Alliance and hundreds of other top builders are coming together to form Alliance, the world's first digital startup nation, to accelerate the best Web3 startups. https://t.co/Tp2Ms38yBB
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We’ve raised our Series D of $50M from SoftBank Vision Fund 2! Congratulations to the @Sense_HQ team for your amazing grit, determination, and teamwork. Read more at https://t.co/MWQYkRYmtI Onward 🚀 @pankaj___jindal @alexmr @Gudavalli
sensehq.com
Sense announces $50M in Series D funding from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to help organizations hire incredible talent fast, at scale, without sacrificing a personalized experience.
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Verifying for @nifkey_xyz. Find me at https://t.co/OPN6ppxmJl sig: 0x275ebbe12da6b0303850fd48228e7a52aa3c7e26b0fc4aceba07d4fe8f80e67d79fbe330f56c50b664f99b1ea481acfbf9d2df4b8cc95c04030664d5149537a31b
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@Instawork has raised $60M in Series C funding to get America back to work and to continue executing towards our vision to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals. Just one step in our long journey! https://t.co/H5ydGlUqDJ
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So saddened by the passing of @mkruz. He was an amazing colleague, friend and mentor
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