Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event

Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss operating at scale in the age… Continua a leggere Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event

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Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain

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Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

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