Erik Chelstad wants you to pay a little more attention to the person using the bathroom — not literally, but metaphorically. Chelstad is co-founder and chief technology officer of Observa,… Read More
For her first 18 years, Arry Yu was selectively mute. Due to a childhood trauma, she spoke very little, but watched the people and interactions around her very much. She… Read More
Officially, Lydia Frank is PayScale’s vice president of corporate and product marketing — a promotion that was announced this month. But parts of the job remind Frank of her first… Read More
In the 1980s, when Laura Ruderman was a teen in New York City walking to the gym after high school, she would pass a homeless man at the 86th Street… Read More
Brian McGowan would like to remind you why Seattle is awesome. Of course there’s the natural beauty, the jagged Olympic and Cascade mountains, the shifting blue-hues of Puget Sound, the… Read More
Yes, Satya Nadella is the visionary Microsoft CEO who five years ago began implementing a massive shift in operations that contributed to making the software and cloud giant the world’s… Read More
Leafly is a leading source of information on cannabis products, explaining everything from the type of high experienced from Blue Dream versus Bruce Banner strains of marijuana, to testing the… Read More
Kent Brown has learned to embrace the pivot. Five years ago, when his twin boys turned 18 and Brown became an empty-nester, he jumped from being an employee of Microsoft… Read More
Anika Lehde loves to ride the bus, and she doesn’t care who knows it. Lehde commutes between home in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood and the city’s downtown Pioneer Square where… Read More
After Shankar Narayan graduated from Yale with a law degree, he needed a job that would help pay off his sizable student loans and provide a green card. It was… Read More
For companies that are struggling to fill tech roles, Katharine Nester, chief product and technology officer for Ruby Receptionists, has some advice: Look internally for your talent. It’s a strategy… Read More
Some companies point to cutting-edge innovations for their success while others boast their customer-centric strategies. Chief Revenue Officer Loren Alhadeff says that DocuSign has its own special superpower. “The unique… Read More
Having now raised more than $1.1 billion for venture capital investments over the course of her career, Elise Hebb remembers when she first caught the VC bug. It was the… Read More
For those who remember Clippy — Microsoft Office’s animated paperclip assistant — would you have liked him better as a typewriter? What about a stapler? Back in the mid-1990s, Rob… Read More
Brandon Bazemore joined the U.S. Marine Corps while in high school for two reasons: to pay for college and because they offered him the chance to learn more about engineering… Read More
David Kraft is downright giddy for innovation. “I’m often naive enough to think there is no problem that can’t be solved,” Kraft said. And admittedly it would be a problem… Read More
One might wonder if there’s any risk big enough to really frighten Maureen Lonergan. How about ducking out of the workforce to take two “gap years” in her career —… Read More
When he was still a very young man — like not even old enough to drink legally — Joe Davy was on an accelerated path of career discovery that can… Read More
Will Daugherty was ready to start his next chapter. He’d built expertise and years of diverse experiences at companies and boards including Amazon, Expedia, McKinsey, the University of Washington, the… Read More
While the number of women working in tech jobs in the U.S. has doubled over the past 20 years, they’re still significantly outnumbered by men in the field. Only 24… Read More
When David Aronchick returned to Microsoft last fall, I suspect that many folks there did a little happy dance. A Dartmouth grad with undergrad degrees in psychology and chemistry, Aronchick… Read More
It didn’t take long for Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson to realize that if she wanted to effectively provide a research-based alternative to the unfounded claims of Jenny McCarthy and others… Read More
With a resume that includes Amazon, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Chase and others, Kathy Alexion confesses to being a “corporate soldier.” But her nearly three years at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer… Read More
OfferUp’s Chief Operating Officer Bill Carr says that he’s not a scientist. At least not in the chemical engineering way that his dad and grandfathers were. But he is an… Read More
When Neal Gottsacker decided to take the role of chief product officer at Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex, he was confident that it was going to be a good fit. He interviewed… Read More
Marilyn Strickland likes mixing things up. She has transitioned between the corporate world of Starbucks, two terms as mayor of Tacoma and now CEO and president of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber… Read More
Ari Steinberg wanted to start a company when he graduated from Stanford University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. He tried to convince his three college roommates to join… Read More
DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson is a quote machine. As she explains the whys and hows of her successful math education software company, which raised $130 million in venture capital… Read More
As chief technology officer for Sage Bionetworks, Michael Kellen has the rare opportunity to merge the commercial drive of a startup with the mission-driven focus of a nonprofit. Kellen leads… Read More
Kara Sprague’s dad was an attorney and her first choice for college was Harvard University, leading to a career in law. But when that offer didn’t come through and a spot… Read More