Silicon Florist 🌹 Puppet to be acquired, Sila CTO

Issue 639

Puppet to be acquired

I’ve had the opportunity and pleasure of covering Puppet since Reductive Labs relocated to Portland in 2009. It’s been among the most interesting journeys of a company in the Portland startup community. And it’s been great to be part of that journey of observation. And even collaboration, as PIE, the organization I run, had the opportunity to work with Puppet, 2019-2020. But as with many journeys, they come to an end. As this begins to, today. Puppet is on the path to being acquired by Perforce… More

Chris Chen joins Portland fintech startup Sila as CTO

I’m always saying that we have a super interesting fintech cluster here in town. Thanks, in part, to the diaspora from early challenger banks like Simple. And a recent hire — by a company helmed by one of the cofounders of Simple — lends credence to that assertion. You see, Chris Chen, formerly CTO of Wyre, has joined Sila as CTO… More

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

As a startup founder, I sincerely wish that there was as much accessible content on relevant topics like __________________ as there is on "crafting pitch decks" and "raising venture capital."

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💐 Silicon Florist links arrangement

• Puppet acquisition edition

• April 14, 2022: VC down, Panic, Opal

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

Like every 𝖯𝗈𝗋𝗍𝗅𝖺𝗇𝖽 event attendee ever, white Christmas showed up when it was damn good and ready

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💼 Jobs

• Senior Backend Developer at DeepSurface Security

• Curtiss-Wright's PacStar Business Unit

  • Senior Manager, Professional Services

  • Software Development Engineer

  • Software DevOps Engineer

  • Sales Support Engineer

• Kiva.org

  • Senior Backend Engineer, Fintech

  • Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• Software Engineer at Searchspring

• Audigy

  • Sr. Software Engineer

  • Director of Application Development

• Senior QA/Release Engineer - Playdate OS and SDK at Panic

• Strive Messaging

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

  • DevOps Engineer

  • Senior Front End Developer/UX Designer

• Icon Savings Plan

  • Software Engineer, Backend

  • Software Engineer, Full-Stack

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🗓️ Events

I know that you’re busy. Here are events that are worthy of your consideration, this week.

• Tuesday (Noon) PDXWIT Happy Hour: Careers, Talks, Connection

• Tuesday (1:00PM) OTBC Webinar - Driving Traffic To Your Website

• Friday (10:00AM) Accenture x PIE: Conversation on Building your Brand and Strong Teams

A plea to get back in the habit of adding events to Calagator

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