Most tech startups are born from a few early engineers building the company’s initial product.
As those first builders work together, they begin to establish a developer culture — sometimes deliberately, sometimes not.
At Web Summit in Lisbon in November, two founders discussed the importance of building a developer culture that’s distinct from a company’s overall culture.
And we really wanted to instill that in the developer culture early on,” she said.
Ludmila Pontremolez, CTO and co-founder at Zippi, a Brazilian fintech startup, spent time as an engineer at Square prior to launching Zippi.
Opendoor co-founder Eric Wu is stepping down to return to his startup rootsOpendoor co-founder Eric Wu is stepping down from the real estate tech company, according to an SEC filing.
In a statement, Wu said: “After ten years, I am called to get back to my startup roots and create and build again.
Last December, Wu announced he was stepping down from his role as CEO to serve as Opendoor’s president of marketplace.
In November 2022, Opendoor announced it was letting go of about 550 people, or 18% of the company, across all functions.
Jack Altman also announced he would be stepping down from Lattice, a software startup he founded in 2015.
Credit Karma co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Nichole Mustard is leaving the company after 16-and-a-half years, TechCrunch has exclusively learned today.
Chief people officer Colleen McCreary left her role in January before joining Ribbit Capital as an investor in June.
Intuit closed on its $8.1 billion cash and stock purchase of Credit Karma in 2020 and things have been a bit bumpy since.
Last November, Credit Karma confirmed to TechCrunch that it had “decided to pause almost all hiring,” citing “revenue challenges due to the uncertain environment.” At that time, the company shared that all Credit Karma verticals had been “negatively impacted by macro uncertainty.
Credit Karma experienced further deterioration in these verticals during the last few weeks of the first quarter [of 2022].”In August, Intuit reported that Credit Karma had seen its revenue decline by 9% to $1.6 billion for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2023.
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