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Uber Launches Uber Works To Connect Workers To Gig Jobs

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The app is being tested in Chicago and will show available shifts companies are looking to fill with temporary workers. Uber is rolling out a new app called Uber Works that will help people looking for shift work connect with companies looking to hire temps, Reuters reported on Thursday (Oct.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

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From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. Performance and multiples continue to be solid, outperforming most regional banks. Lifetime Leadership Achievement Awards. We salute a legend of lending and credit union leadership. Has to be M-O-E. Bank Merger of the Year. So which merger was the best in 2021?

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In or out: How should a company source its innovation?

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Leadership and board members. Braintree , a Chicago-based payment infrastructure company founded in 2007, aimed to replace the traditional model where merchants used different providers for a payment gateway and a merchant account. Company Leadership & Board Members. Focus on developers. How Stripe makes money.

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40 Years of William Mills Agency, the Family Reflects on the Milestone

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Our friends in the media are also more decentralized today as opposed to 1997, when they seemed to be primarily concentrated in New York, Washington, DC and Chicago. Eloise: Bill’s graceful handing over of the reins to William and Scott and their capable leadership of the agency from that point.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

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To some, Silicon Valley startup culture was as much to blame for Theranos’ failure as the company’s leadership. It only managed to expand to 10 of the promised 22 new regions, and by the end of 2013, it had only 77,596 subscribers (Neflix had 50M at the time). Takeaways & lessons. But the company struggled to build a customer base.

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

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Since Richman and about 100 other bankers from LaSalle Bank in Chicago joined PrivateBancorp nearly a decade ago, the bank has grown to an $18 billion solid niche player with $10 billion in assets under management. Hats off to a decade of strong leadership and hard work. Or the need to take market share in a slowest growth region?

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