Stacey Kinkead and her team at Rivet & Cuff want to change the way you shop for jeans — forever. “We’re making buying jeans online as easy as buying your… Read More
Context Relevant CEO Stephen Purpura is working on the leading edge of big data — helping companies use their data more effectively. But Purpura, whose company scored $21 million from… Read More
CloudMunch co-founder and CEO Pradeep Prabhu never expected to be the CEO of a tech company. “I just got into it by accident,” says Prabhu, who initially was studying to… Read More
Though he’s only held one other job since college, WhitePages founder and CEO Alex Algard thinks he’s found a pretty good fit in his growing company. “I like the feeling… Read More
“The watchword for the last couple of years has been big data,” says John Slitz, CEO of SpaceCurve. And the problem with big data, “is it’s big.” That’s why Slitz… Read More
As a one-time English PhD student, Janis Machala didn’t always know her career would lead her down a business path. But now she helps other people pursue their passions and… Read More
Last month, I attended GeekWire’s Startup Day at the Showbox SODO in Seattle. Surrounded by some of the brightest entrepreneurial minds, I decided to chat with as many people as… Read More
How do you go from a part-time consulting gig to CEO of a 35-person company in seven years? Liz Pearce knows how, because she did it. As CEO of project… Read More
Marc Nager believes in the power of entrepreneurs, so much so that he’s a first-time entrepreneur himself building a network to enable and empower even more entrepreneurs around the world.… Read More
Thor Culverhouse is more than just an impressive name. He’s also the CEO at fast-growing cloud company Skytap. Although new to the company, having joined in July, Culverhouse has has… Read More
Jared Wray, founder and CTO of cloud computing startup Tier 3, is helping to build the future of enterprise business. A serial entrepreneur, Wray is most excited about how cloud… Read More
Jon Jenkins, head of engineering at Pinterest, has taken the lead of a “super scrappy, super agile” team of engineers building one of the biggest social networks on the web… Read More
ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein wants to help the folks who “keep the lights on” in your IT department spend more time innovating. The Seattle startup, backed by Madrona Venture Group,… Read More
Big Fish founder Paul Thelen didn’t think he’d become a technology CEO. But after an illness brought his life into sharp focus, Thelen decided to quit his job at RealNetworks… Read More
Freak’n Genius co-founder Kyle Kesterson is a creative guy. After quitting his job as a professional toy designer, he got a call from a friend inviting him to Startup Weekend.… Read More
Clipboard founder Gary Flake and his team are developing a new way for consumers to save information that they discover on the web. Find out what this former machine learning… Read More
DailyCred co-founder Dave Mathews wants to solve really big problems. The latest Internet foe he’s facing off against: The user login field on your website. Website owners are spending time and… Read More
Chao Zhang has followed technology around the world — from China to Germany and finally to Seattle, where he joined the Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect to help launch his company, UBI… Read More
OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar knows you have a bunch of stuff in your garage, and he wants to help you sell it. With a history in startups and a passion… Read More
Gatherball co-founder Paul Watts has hung around startups for a long time, working as a software engineer at companies like WildTangent and WildSeed. And yet he still says there’s no feeling… Read More
“I was supposed to be an accountant,” says Marc Barros, who’s now the co-founder and CEO of Contour, one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the Pacific Northwest. The former University… Read More
Jenni Hogan wants to change the way you interact with news — and the way it interacts with you. With a vision for connectivity, communication, and entrepreneurship — not to… Read More
Former firefighter Jesse Robbins is comfortable under pressure. In fact, he thrives on it. Channeling positive energy and optimism into his growing organization, Robbins and his team at Seattle cloud… Read More
Veteran game designer Chris Hewett and his team at Mindbloom want to make sure you are living your healthiest, happiest life. Though he was once no stranger to the hectic… Read More
Life as an accountant wasn’t quite enough for Chuck Edwards, so when he was given the opportunity to learn Oracle and grow his database skills, he jumped at it. Now… Read More
Some Nextcast guests have seen it all, and Ron Erickson is among them. Starting out in public policy and law, Erickson made waves in a few fields (including selling zucchini squash at… Read More
Joe Justice knew from a young age that he wanted to get involved in technology and change the world (he even found a childhood diary entry to prove it!). Now… Read More
Kabir Shahani and his team at Appature want to help marketers create intensely personal customer experiences. How are they going to do it? By leveraging the incredible opportunities the current… Read More
Matt Hulett, a self-described “late-bloomer” in the tech space, started out shrink-wrapping software in the 80s and is now leading RealNetworks’ GameHouse unit into the future of gaming. It’s no… Read More