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Quinten Dol Quinten Dol
Updated on April 03, 2025

How Smarkets empowers engineers to be their own boss — and choose their own projects

The Smarkets engineering team takes advantage of their company’s self management philosophy to choose projects based on interest, curiosity or expertise. The betting and prediction markets company operates with a relatively flat structure, and employees get to vote for their team leaders. We spoke to four of Smarkets’ software engineers to learn what their day-to-day looks like.

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Ashley Bowden Ashley Bowden
Updated on April 03, 2025

New Unicorn Genies Raises $150M to Create Avatar Ecosystems for Web3

Led by Silver Lake, the company’s latest round values it at $1 billion.

Jeremy Porr Jeremy Porr
Updated on April 03, 2025

Day-J Raises $2.1M in Pre-Seed Funding, Launches Private Beta Waitlist

In addition to videos, text chat and one-on-one coaching sessions, the AI-driven app offers users location-based recommendations on where and what to eat.

Updated on April 03, 2025

11 LA-based real estate tech companies changing the way people buy houses

LA's booming real estate tech scene has people wondering how we'll be buying houses in the near future.

Updated on April 03, 2025

Make your move: 5 LA tech companies hiring now

Whether it’s the San Fernando Valley, Santa Monica or even downtown Los Angeles, opportunities are aplenty for experienced tech minds looking to make a switch.

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