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One of the management objectives for BlackRock’s Product Group employees in 2017 was to “build cool stuff.” Led by Managing Director Michael Francis, a cross-sectional group of 20 did just that: They rolled out a full...

Dan Farrelly uses a carpentry analogy to explain the problem his company, Buffer, began having as its team of developers grew over the past few years. “If you’re building a table by yourself, it’s fine,” the...

With the speed befitting a startup, Pear Deck delivered its first prototype to customers within three months of incorporating. As a former high school math teacher, CEO Riley Eynon-Lynch felt an urgency to provide a tech...

How many people does it take to turn on a light bulb? Kit Klein whips out his phone to demonstrate. With a few swipes, the head of engineering at Wink pulls up the smart-home app created...

It started with a Shaky Leaf. Since its introduction a decade ago, the Shaky Leaf icon has become one of Ancestry’s signature features, which signals to users that there’s a helpful hint you can use to...

It’s not every day that you can say you’ve slashed an operating expense by half. But Sheriff Mohamed and Josh Chandler did just that when they helped lead their company, GolfNow, on a journey from a...

In the summer of 2014, Box was feeling the pain of a decade’s worth of hardware and software infrastructure that wasn’t keeping up with the company’s needs. A platform that allows its more than 50 million...