Richard Tait, the longtime Seattle entrepreneur who co-founded the wildly popular board game “Cranium” after spending 10 years at Microsoft, has died. He was 58. Tait passed away on Monday… Read More
Tadataka Yamada, a pioneer in drug and vaccine development who helped forge numerous biotech companies and spent five years at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as head of global… Read More
Seattle’s tech history is populated with pioneering figures such as Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Jeff Bezos, whose work on everything from software to internet retail changed the world. Alan… Read More
Aaron Hirschhorn, a tech veteran and former board member at Seattle-based Rover, died Sunday in a boating accident near Miami Beach, Fla. He was 42. Hirschhorn was a longtime entrepreneur… Read More
William Ruckelshaus, a fixture in the Seattle business community with a storied history of civil service, died Wednesday at his home in Seattle. He was 87. Long before his most… Read More
Matt Bencke, a fixture in Seattle’s technology community and co-founder of the startup Mighty AI, passed away on Wednesday after a battle with stage-4 pancreatic cancer. Bencke, 45, was diagnosed with… Read More
News of the death of Prince spread rapidly on the Internet on Thursday as tweets and Facebook posts conveyed the usual shock and sadness over the loss of a celebrated… Read More
Posted by Eric Medalle on Saturday, February 27, 2016 Eric Medalle, the man who died when a tree fell on his SUV during a Seattle windstorm, was a longtime artist and… Read More
Doug Walker scaled some of the world’s tallest peaks, scurrying up them with endless energy and unbridled enthusiasm. And while he lived much of his life at high elevations, perhaps… Read More
Dr. J. Wayne Cowens, the chief medical officer at Seattle-based NanoString Technologies, has died at the age of 67. “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden loss of… Read More
Gordon Kuenster, one of the first successful tech entrepreneurs in the Seattle area, died recently at the age of 80. His story is worth telling because of his importance in… Read More
Steve Jobs, the legendary Apple co-founder, has died at the age of 56. Jobs’ influence on technology started with the early days of the personal computer and continued through the… Read More
Tacoma native and electronic book pioneer Michael S. Hart has died at the age of 64. Before Kindle, Nook or iPad entered the lexicon, Hart was tinkering with electronic books.… Read More
It is with great sadness that I report that Tom Music has died at the age of 31 after a long bout with cancer. Music had a booming voice and… Read More