Key trends in digital commerce, with the former Amazon exec leading Seattle’s newest unicorn
Fabric CEO Faisal Masud, a former Amazon exec, calls the size of the startup’s market opportunity “absurd.” This week brought news of a big fundraising by e-commerce…
USAFacts founder and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the State of the Union in numbers
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is founder of USAFacts. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Understanding any subject requires knowing the numbers, and that includes looking at…
How this former tech columnist bridged her family’s political divide, and what we can learn from it
Mónica Guzmán’s new book is I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times. (Author Photo By Meghann J….
Jeff Bezos, future Seahawks owner? Why the Russell Wilson trade increases the odds
Jeff Bezos would have the means and reportedly the interest to purchase the Seattle Seahawks NFL team from the estate of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. (GeekWire…
Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and Amazon: Inside the tragic final days of a fabled entrepreneur
Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, by Wall Street Journal reporters Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre. (Simon &…
GeekWire Podcast: Testing Starlink; U.S. tech worker migration; GeekWire Awards sneak peek
U.S. migration patterns from 2020 to 2021 (U.S. Census Bureau graphic, adapted by GeekWire.) This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we talk about what could be an…
How iSpot is using tech-driven advertising analytics to challenge TV industry stalwart Nielsen
iSpot tech chief Anthony Skinner speaks about the Seattle-area company’s television advertising analytics at a recent NBCUniversal developer conference. (Screenshot via NBCUniversal video) Most online publishers and…
Words with AI: Language and the future of work, with Textio CEO Kieran Snyder
Textio CEO Kieran Snyder (via LinkedIn) What’s the impact of the words we use? Augmented writing platform Textio uses machine learning and natural language processing to take…
The new frontiers of AI and robotics, with CMU computer science dean Martial Hebert
Martial Hebert, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, during a recent visit to the GeekWire offices in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)…
What happened after a Moscow-born Seattle tech CEO closed a big Russian operation in solidarity with Ukraine
Sergei Dreizin is co-founder and CEO of software engineering company Akvelon, based in Bellevue, Wash. Born and raised in Moscow, he moved to the U.S. in 1992,…