Sarah Bird, the Seattle tech veteran who led SEO software startup Moz for seven years, is the new CEO of Canvas, a software company that builds technology for remodeling, architecture… Read More
Sarah Bird is leaving Moz, the Seattle-based SEO software startup that she joined in 2007 and led as CEO for more than seven years. The company was acquired this past… Read More
— Microsoft Azure General Manager and COO Aseem Datar is joining Madrona Venture Group as a partner. The Seattle investment firm also announced that Chris Picardo has been promoted to… Read More
SEO software startup Moz has been acquired by email marketing company iContact, a subsidiary of J2 Global. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rand Fishkin and his mother Gillian… Read More
— Smart home startup Wyze Labs named Francis Lee as its first chief financial officer. A longtime Nike exec, Lee was most recently head of Global Marketing Finance for the… Read More
It turns out that two weeks of self isolation and social distancing is a good amount of time to build an app — especially if that app’s intention is to… Read More
Nutrition company Bulletproof 360, the maker of Bulletproof Coffee, hired Cameron Kinloch as chief financial officer. The move comes as Bulletproof gears up for a massive expansion that will bring… Read More
Moz is making its largest acquisition to date as the Seattle search engine optimization company aims to tackle what CEO Sarah Bird calls the “golden age of search.” Moz today… Read More
Just three months after it opened its new Seattle office, Airbnb is making an even stronger bet on the city with a top-level executive hire. Vinayak Hegde, formerly the chief… Read More
For all of Jeff Bezos’ accomplishments, one accolade he hadn’t attained was leading a company sitting atop the GeekWire 200, our ranking of privately held Pacific Northwest tech companies. Until now.… Read More
Rand Fishkin and Casey Henry have plenty of experience helping build venture-backed companies — and that’s part of the reason why they avoided the traditional venture financing route for their… Read More
Rand Fishkin, the longtime Seattle entrepreneur and SparkToro founder, became known for his “Whiteboard Friday” videos as the co-founder of Moz, so when he came to our studio recently for… Read More
Lots of startup leaders talk about transparency. Rand Fishkin lives it. The co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based marketing technology startup Moz is known for publicly sharing information that many… Read More
On-demand trucking startup Convoy announced two new additions to its financial leadership team: Former Zillow executive and Amazon manager Tony Small joins the company as its chief revenue officer, and longtime… Read More
Gillian Muessig seems to have acquired more than one life-time’s worth of connections, venture capital experience and insights into how to help women — and really anyone else — succeed… Read More
Rand Fishkin started the marketing software company Moz 17 years ago with his mom at a time when the term SEO was just getting legs. Given that long history, the… Read More
More than 16 years after launching Moz, Rand Fishkin is ready for his next adventure. Over the next six-to-nine months, Fishkin will step away from day-to-day operations at the Seattle-based… Read More
There’s virtually no limit to the way we communicate these days: Skype, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter — the list goes on and on. But a good, old-fashioned text message is… Read More
Front Desk, a well-funded Seattle startup that develops management infrastructure for business, is looking to add to its growing team. The company is hiring a Systems Engineer to help build… Read More
As Donald Trump’s presidential victory continues to sink in, and his plans start coming together, more heads of technology companies are addressing the results publicly and to their employees. Sarah… Read More
Transparency is a core value for Rand Fishkin and Moz, the Seattle marketing software company he founded 12 years ago. While it has guided Moz along its startup journey, staying true… Read More
A week after about 60 employees of Seattle-based Moz were laid off, new employers have come calling thanks in part to a #hiremoz hashtag and hiremoz.com, a centralized website to showcase… Read More
Seattle-based Moz, a 12-year-old maker of marketing software, will cut 28 percent of its workforce as part of a broader initiative to refocus on search engine optimization as other parts… Read More
When Moz CEO Sarah Bird isn’t leading a team of over 200 employees she dedicates her time to civic initiatives. She wants to make the Seattle tech scene a more diverse… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state’s Equal Pay Act dates to the 1940s, requiring men and women to receive the same pay for the same work. More than seven decades later, a bill up… Read More
Seattle-based Moz, a 12-year-old maker of marketing software, has landed $10 million in fresh funding that it will use to accelerate product offerings. The pre-money valuation on the round was… Read More
LexBlog, a Seattle-based company that helps lawyers start and run their own blogs, is seeking a customer success manager to help its users make the most of the company’s services.… Read More
The best technology office spaces are not just about kegerators and ping pong tables. A true geeky office space reflects the culture and style of the company, and we’ve seen plenty… Read More
New changes to Google’s search algorithms, taking effect this week, have a chance to cause some major headaches for businesses without mobile-ready websites. The company is slated to implement new… Read More
Seattleites clearly know how to get loud at a sporting event. Now, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell wants her constituents to be equally vocal about supporting net neutrality. Cantwell, a Democrat… Read More