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MongoDB said it has appointed CJ Desai, an alum of Cloudflare and ServiceNow, as CEO effective Nov. 10.
In a statement, the company said current CEO Dev Ittycheria will retire from a full-time role but will stay on MongoDB's board.
It was evident that Desai was going to land a CEO gig when Cloudflare reported its earnings. Cloudflare said Desai was resigning as president of product and engineering to take a CEO role at a visible publicly traded company.
OpenAI said it has signed a $38 billion agreement to use AWS and its Amazon EC2 UltraServers immediately. Under the deal, OpenAI will access hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and likely CPUs for AI agents.
The TrueFiduciary Institute is a non-profit organization with a Massive Transformational Purpose of positively impacting 1 million student lives through financial well-being. The mission is for every student to graduate college with an actionable financial plan. The Institute partners with universities to further financial education for students via delivery of content and curriculum, cost-free digital tools for financial planning, saving and investing, and building a community between students and the corporate world.”
Zoho offers beautifully smart software to help you grow your business. With over 60 million users worldwide, Zoho's 45+ products aid your sales and marketing, support and collaboration, finance and recruitment needs—letting you focus only on your business. Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products. Zoho Corporation is a privately-held and profitable company headquartered in Austin, Texas with international headquarters in Chennai, India, with offices across the globe.