The finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2024 GeekWire Awards include software veterans working on a variety of enterprise problems, from helping companies manage contracts, to better analyzing… Read More
Community. It felt good to say it and hear it, and it felt even better to see it in action on Thursday in Seattle as the tech community gathered for… Read More
As summer approaches, many high schoolers and college students are off to their first jobs and professional internships across the country. Whether it’s washing cars or making metal casts and… Read More
It’s been a tough year for people everywhere. But Thursday proved to be an inspiring day, as the 2021 GeekWire Awards returned to honor some of the leading innovators and… Read More
Thor Culverhouse is no longer the CEO of enterprise cloud services company Skytap, and former chief technology officer Bradley Schick will lead the company going forward, GeekWire has learned. “I… Read More
Former Expedia executive Aman Bhutani is the new leader of website hosting giant GoDaddy, taking over from CEO Scott Wagner, who is stepping down for health reasons. “GoDaddy’s extraordinary focus… Read More
The technology industry makes another strong showing among the 100 top CEOs of 2018 in the new Employees’ Choice Awards from Glassdoor, the jobs and recruiting website. With 26 CEOs on… Read More
Former Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland is taking the helm as President and CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Strickland spent the last eight years as Tacoma’s chief executive,… Read More
Word to the wise: If you’re taking over as chief executive of one of the most talked-about companies in the world, be sure to tell those closest to you before… Read More
Expedia’s new CEO, Mark Okerstrom, doesn’t see tech and business as two disparate departments within the online travel giant. That was one of the takeaways from GeekWire’s interview with Okerstrom… Read More
During his 12-year tenure as the public face of Expedia, Dara Khosrowshahi has been vocal about what makes for great leadership, how he’s navigated the company through challenges, and his ambitions… Read More
The news that Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been selected to take over as Uber CEO came as a surprise Sunday evening. But those who know him say the 12-year… Read More
Uber’s pick for CEO doesn’t come cheap. In 2015, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was the highest-paid CEO in the S&P 500, according to a report compiled by Equilar and the Associated… Read More
Embed from Getty Images Maybe Amazon’s signature catchphrase is helping CEO Jeff Bezos stay motivated at the gym. It’s still Day One, baby. Or perhaps he’s been making use of… Read More
CEOs of some of the world’s top tech companies are feeling the love today, thanks to a new list from employer database and employment review site Glassdoor. The list ranks… Read More
For the CEO of a cybersecurity firm, Tim Chen has some surprisingly luddite tendencies. “I’m old school,” he says, explaining why he avoids all of the popular online social networks.… Read More
“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” You don’t have to look much farther than the legacies of Bill Gates, Larry Page, Steve Wozniak, and Mark Zuckerberg to… Read More
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann thinks a Nigerian health officer’s work collecting sewage is “a thing of beauty.” It may seem like an unusual way to describe the… 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
Garmentory has eliminated non-compete clauses from employment agreements and we’re appealing to other Seattle companies to do the same. (Sorry lawyers). The recent controversy around bills in the Washington state… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody International — composed of music streaming services Rhapsody and Napster — announced Mike Davis as the first CEO in the parent company’s history. Previously, Davis worked as a TPG… Read More
DocuSign had a new CEO all lined up — and then something happened. The digital signature company had scheduled media briefings with its next CEO, in advance of an April 4… Read More
If you thought the Fire Phone was a flop, consider the Jeff Bezos ideas that never made it off the drawing board. In a Fortune profile naming the Amazon CEO the… Read More
Employment review site Glassdoor just released its list of the top 50 CEOs of large companies, as rated by their own employees, and tech execs take up 15 spots. Google’s Larry Page tops… Read More
Patton. Eisenhower. Bradley. Grant. Lee. Great generals all have different leadership tactics on the field of battle. And it’s no different with the crop of tech leaders in our next… Read More
In the past few months Kristen Hamilton’s startup Koru expanded its services to Boston, made GeekWire’s Seattle 10 list of innovative new companies, and closed an $8 million funding round. The company also boasts an… Read More
Viral, shareable content is Ben Huh’s bread and butter. His business is predicated on the notion that when we see an adorable kitten, a funny meme, or a GIF from our… Read More
The latest Microsoft CEO candidate to emerge from the rumor mill is Hans Vestberg, the CEO of telecom company Ericsson, who was reported by Bloomberg News last night to be… Read More
It has been more than three months since Steve Ballmer announced his plans to retire as CEO of Microsoft, setting off a wave of speculation about who could fill his… Read More
A report by Bloomberg News this morning quotes anonymous sources saying that Stephen Elop, the former Microsoft exec and Nokia CEO, would consider making the Office applications available more widely beyond… Read More