What tech employees can learn from Severance | The Morning Report

5 lessons every tech employee can learn from the TV show Severance

The program revolves around the biotech company Lumon Industries. » Start reading.

Natalia Williams joins Hootsuite as chief product officer

The ex-Mailchimp exec will be based in Hootsuite’s new Atlanta office. » Get the full story.

Funding and deals:

• Vancouver-based Headcheck Health, a tech-enabled provider of concussion protocol management, signed a deal to become the concussion tech partner of USA Cycling. » Continue.

In other news:

• Clio officially reopened offices through its Distributed by Design hybrid work model, a strategy CEO Jack Newton teased to us last summer. » New York Times.

• Founder accelerator On Deck announced its top 100 companies in 2022. Two Canadian companies, both from Vancouver, made the cut. » Guess who.

• Dr. Jaimie Borisoff has been appointed director for the MAKE+ research team at BCIT Applied Research. » Continue.

• Production volume for the province’s film and TV industry hit $3.3 billion in 2020-21, up 13 percent from the previous, per the Canadian Media Producers Association. » Business in Vancouver.

• East Side Games Group appointed board chair Jason Bailey as its new CEO. » Proactive Investors.

Ideas and insights:

• Roger Patterson, CEO of Later, writing on the Entrepreneurs’ Organization blog: 3 strategies to combat digital distractions

• Chris Neumann, partner at Panache Ventures, shares how founders can discern an early-stage VC’s ability to help them raise their next round

• Tessa Seager, CCI’s B.C. director of government affairs, writing on her organization’s blog: The Data Economy Has Changed. B.C.’s Privacy Law Needs to Change Too.

• Marius Adomnica, a partner at Segev LLP, joined the Business of Esports podcast to discuss the law as it applies to esports and video games and what we can learn from current cases. » Listen now.

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- William (@notionport)