Textio laid off 14 employees this week, or 16% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring. The company confirmed the cuts to GeekWire on Thursday. It has now has… Read More
Kieran Snyder, the co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based Textio, has launched her next project, less than two months after stepping back from the augmented writing startup. In an email… Read More
Kieran Snyder, co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based augmented writing startup Textio, has stepped down as CEO, the company announced Wednesday. Jensen Harris, co-founder and previously chief experience officer — and… Read More
The finalists in the UX Design of the Year category at the 2023 GeekWire Awards are working to help end users across a variety of disciplines, including health care, worker… Read More
Textio, the Seattle-based augmented writing platform, conducted a “broad team reorganization” this week, according to co-founder and CEO Kieran Snyder. Snyder said the 9-year-old startup adjusted the balance of its… Read More
Large tech companies including Zillow Group and Amazon are turning up the dial on stock compensation in a bid to reduce churn. There are a bevy of factors incentivizing employers… Read More
— Kelli Burns joined Seattle-based healthcare company Accolade as its new chief information security officer. Burns comes from Bellevue, Wash.-based financial services company Symetra, where she held the same role. Burns… Read More
— Stanford professor Susan Athey, a former consulting chief economist at Microsoft, will join the U.S. Department of Justice as its top antitrust economist, Bloomberg reported. Athey consulted with Microsoft… Read More
Textio, an augmented writing platform, has completed a review of written, job performance feedback from more than 25,000 employees at 250 organizations. The Seattle company found biased comments that aligned… Read More
In addition to the usual questions about pay and benefits and culture and so on, a climate of economic uncertainty in the tech sector should have job seekers asking tougher… Read More
Prior to the pandemic, Textio CEO Kieran Snyder believed in the power of the office. A centralized place for people to connect, where ideas blossomed and culture flowed. Nearly all… Read More
What’s the impact of the words we use? Augmented writing platform Textio uses machine learning and natural language processing to take the guesswork out of business communication, offering predictive analytics… Read More
— Former Zillow Chief Economist Svenja Gudell is now chief economist at Indeed, leading the job search engine’s research team. “The labor market is a fundamental building block to the… Read More
— Gender-neutral underwear maker TomboyX promoted COO Leslie Garrard to CEO. Co-founders Fran Dunaway and Naomi Gonzalez will continue to be brand ambassadors and strategic advisors. Dunaway will remain on… Read More
Seattle-based augmented writing startup Textio has always sought to help people better communicate where they do their work, whether it’s in Gmail, Outlook or elsewhere. Now Textio is bringing the… Read More
— Amy Nelson is getting back into co-working. The founder and former CEO of The Riveter announced Tuesday that she is the president of SaksWorks, a new partnership between Saks… Read More
A new study on the use of jargon in job ads has identified the worst offenders in the U.S. And we’d like to have a word with Washington state. The… Read More
The plywood is coming down, restaurants that survived are adding hours and vehicle traffic in Seattle is growing from the ghost-town levels of one year ago. But as downtown, Belltown,… Read More
CEOs did not have an easy task running their companies over the past 12 months — navigating a series of tough societal, economic and public health challenges. But even in… Read More
Textio, the Seattle-based augmented writing startup, is expanding its product offering beyond helping companies craft better job listings and is releasing “Textio for Employer Brand,” a tool to facilitate more… Read More
Seattle-based augmented writing startup Textio has closed a $12 million funding round as the company looks to expand beyond the enterprise market. The news comes on the heels of cutbacks… Read More
Textio, the Seattle startup whose augmented writing platform helps companies use language that attracts the right job candidates, laid off 30 employees on Friday, or 20 percent of its team.… Read More
Textio’s augmented writing work to help companies use the right language to find the right people for jobs — while eliminating bias — is expanding to include features related to… Read More
Update: Textio has attracted new investors and closed a $12 million funding round as the company looks to expand beyond the enterprise market. Read the story. Textio is raising more… Read More
How’s everybody doing? That seems to be the question of the moment as we check in with one another via Slack, Zoom, Teams, Google Hangouts and more from the kitchen… Read More
With a list of tasks she hoped to accomplish before leaving town for the holidays, Julie Yue set her alarm for 6:45 a.m. one day last week. The alarm went… Read More
Canadian linguist Gretchen McCulloch is interested in how people laugh on the internet. Take the abbreviation “lol.” While it started off quite literal, with people using it to signal actual… Read More
A modern analysis of Jeff Bezos’ first-ever job ad for Amazon, posted 25 years ago today, shows that the ad would rate “very weak” by today’s standards and even offers… Read More
Artificial intelligence is one of the Seattle area’s fastest-growing tech frontiers, so it only makes sense for the field to get its own category at the GeekWire Awards. Recognizing innovations… Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE: This lawsuit was dismissed on Oct. 26, 2018. Textio alleges in a new lawsuit that a former customer abused free trial offers of the Seattle startup’s services for… Read More