The notion that “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is simple enough. But what if that absence means temporarily walking away from the company that you founded and lead because… Read More
Steven Halliwell, chief product officer for Promethean, calls himself a change agent. In his current role during the COVID-19 pandemic, that has meant pushing for new approaches internally and with… Read More
Over his career, Doug Schneider has held leadership roles for companies in telecommunications, web hosting and cloud services. He has founded and led businesses, navigating them through some significant transitions.… Read More
Sung Rhee wanted to make money. He’d been a general manager at Microsoft for nearly a decade, and in the early 2000s he wanted to capitalize on the burgeoning internet… Read More
For Qumulo’s Molly Brown, graduating from an all-girls high school turned out to be a great preparation for studying and working in the male-dominated field of computer engineering. “When I… Read More
Colette Courtion has staked her claim where tech innovation has largely feared to tread: women’s pelvic floors. “People want to discount this body part as not being important or not… Read More
To rapidly increase a company’s production 8-fold is daunting. To ramp up 80-fold is almost unimaginable. It’s also what Chris Kiple had to do last spring as CEO of one… Read More
Why would anyone in their right mind voluntarily leave a rising star of a company that’s redefining commerce to a century-old business wildly grasping at relevance? Ian Clarkson admits it’s… Read More
If you’re stuck professionally in a COVID-19 rut, Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Seattle-based Algorithmia, is ready with words of encouragement. “The way that I look at it, is just when… Read More
Lauren Charles recently took up string art as a hobby, motivated by her elementary-age daughter’s desire to hammer things. But the act of creating images by connecting many points together… Read More
In the often dark, disorienting days of COVID-19, Angela Jones finds a twinkle of hope in her plastic, Costco-bought Christmas tree. As the pandemic took root last winter, she left… Read More
When a buddy of Russ Elliott‘s asked if he’d join him in starting a telecom company, he flat out said no. While his friend had been a great help building… Read More
Tyrone Grandison started his career path in math, economics and computer engineering, studying at universities in Jamaica, the West Indies and London and earning multiple degrees that culminated in a… Read More
As CEO of a cybersecurity company that’s raised nearly $15 million in funding, Frances Dewing has a surprising confession to make. “I felt very guilty about liking business,” said the… Read More
In August 1990, 9-year-old Ravs Kaur and her family fled Kuwait City as it was invaded by Iraq, quickly leading to U.S. involvement and the Gulf War. Her father led… Read More
While many kids these days go all-in on a single, competitive sport, Chonchol Gupta’s mom had a different idea. “When I was growing up my mom put in me in all… Read More
Jeff Hussey, co-founder and CEO of Seattle’s Tempered, is not a believer in long-term work-from-home practices. “We have all the technology to do it, but I don’t think human nature… Read More
The COVID-19 crisis isn’t the first global pandemic experienced by Compass Health, a nonprofit caring for mental health and substance abuse patients. It’s hard to say how Parkland Lutheran Children’s… Read More
Chris Jones‘ family was in the water business, with his dad investing some 30 years in the sector, starting with his own water bottling plant in New Jersey. Jones worked… Read More
While the path can be tougher and slower, Join It CEO Mitch Colleran leans toward going his own way, ducking the help of better known organizations and institutions. When he launched… Read More
One can take a reductionist view of career success as a series of lucky breaks or the result of relentless hard work. Kristen Forecki is convinced that it’s a combination… Read More
About the time he was in kindergarten, Andre Alfred started playing with the Tandy 1000 SX that his dad bought at Radio Shack. By age 9, he was writing code… Read More
As CEO and co-founder of Nori, Paul Gambill is hitting his professional stride. His startup, a Seattle-based marketplace for removing CO2 from the air, raised $1.3 million in a “pre-seed”… Read More
For many of us, innovation and technology go together like Tik and Tok. Carmen Rojas, the incoming CEO and president of Marguerite Casey Foundation, encourages people to think more expansively… Read More
If it wasn’t enough to be a co-founder of what could be the longest running UX shop in the U.S., Karen Clark Cole would also like to be a professional… Read More
Eric Lofgren admits that epidemiology is a curious profession. “The issue all epidemiologists have is we get excited about epidemics, but they’re terrible things,” said Lofgren, an infectious disease epidemiologist… Read More
In 1998, Eric Burns was an undergraduate with a summer job working for the dean of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. An e-commerce instructor wanted to make video recordings… Read More
Even if you don’t have the exact path to a lofty goal all mapped out, Sarah Haggard says take what action you can to move in the direction of your… Read More
When the coronavirus pandemic turned her startup upside down, Sage Ke’alohilani Quiamno channeled her frustration into words. The co-founder of Seattle-based Future For Us, a platform dedicated to advancing women… Read More
Michael “Luni” Libes did not want to launch another tech company. Over two decades, he’d been involved with five software startups, founding or co-founding four of them. When his Seattle-based… Read More