GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Eidelson’s focus isn’t on creating a social networking group, but he was glad for the chance to meet in person with like-minded people. Stephanie Hannon , fund advisor whose experience includes chief technology officer for Hilary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. The Climate Papa logo.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Keyplay founding team, from top left, clockwise: Founding account executive Katie Ferris; Founding Engineer Chris Tice; Director of Content Camille Trent; CEO and co-founder Adam Schoenfeld; Founding CSM Lauren Hayes; and CTO and co-founder Andrew Rothbart. Keyplay Photo).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. The Seattle startup closed a $3 million Series A round in 2018. Amazon veteran Stephen Curial joined Jungle Scout as CTO.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2022

The GeekWire 200 rankings are generated using a weighted algorithm that accounts for social media followings, approximate employee counts (via LinkedIn) and inbound web links. spaceflight company has sat atop the GeekWire 200 since June 2018. The Kent, Wash.-spaceflight Hootsuite (No. 2) is reportedly planning on a 2022 IPO.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Gwertzman founded gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and sold Sprout Games to PopCap Games in 2005. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Reagan Attle , previously VP of marketing at Clio, as chief marketing officer. Sabrina Wu. Madrona Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO. He previously served as CTO for Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes and VP of product and engineering at Zulily. In 2018, she joined Rosetta Stone where she was most recently VP of finance. Read the story.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

. — Seattle biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics promoted Valerie Odegard to president and Naomi Hunder to chief medical officer. . Odegard joined the company in 2016 as chief scientific officer. She was previously vice president of research at Juno Therapeutics, which was acquired by Celgene in 2018.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In 2018, he created Transparent Path as an LLC before incorporating it as a social purpose corporation two years later. The team includes: CTO Sunil Koduri , who spent nearly 20 years as a manager at Microsoft. Others include Strella Biotechnology , Shelf Engine , and iFoodDS. The company has five employees and four advisors.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

Lexion announced this week that it will be acquired by Docusign in a $165 million deal, marking a successful exit for the Seattle startup co-founded by Oberoi in 2018. “That social validation felt good. “They loved it and they’d come back and tell me to do more of this and that,” Oberoi told GeekWire on Tuesday.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

GeekWire previously wrote about Khanna when his Facebook internship was rescinded after he exposed a flaw in the social media company’s Messenger app. Neu participated in the 11th Techstars Seattle cohort and made it to the finals of GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch series in 2018. Khanna co-founded Reserved.ai Michael Petrochuk.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The divide separates business-friendly moderates who fear world-class tech hubs could lose their edge if policy swings too far left, and liberal progressives would like the cities to become test beds for social justice causes. Taxing the tech industry. GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg). GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg).

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2020

Amazon’s announcement of a new “Dash Cart” makes the tech giant a direct competitor to Veeve , the Seattle-area smart shopping cart startup that Siddiqui and Sadiq launched in 2018 and unveiled last year. And there are many similarities in their approaches. Customers scan a QR code to log in. Veeve Photo).

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

We’re investing in technology across all the different sorts of ways that people share,” said CTO Mike Schroepfer on a call with reporters. “We Facebook bullying and harassment takedowns between Q3 of 2018 and Q4 of 2020. Facebook removed 2.5 million pieces of violating content, compared to 1.3 million pieces, up from 1.3

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

Although I first joined Mastodon in November 2018, I only recently became an active user, when in November I bailed out of the Musk-hole. (I’m Doctorow has written extensively on why the Fediverse, lacking commercial motivation to extract and enshittify, is a potentially-viable model for healthy social platforms.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

He was lured back to gaming to work on the Intellivision Amico, a new game console with a retro look and feel first announced in 2018 and intended to make gaming a family friendly affair again. software company Clearwater Analytics hired Warren Barkley as CTO. Sprint CMO Roger Solé left the wireless carrier weeks after the $26.5

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

A 2018 survey found that the average monthly cost of a gym membership is $58 nationwide — but that’s higher in some major cities like New York. create a bigger market for mass in-home fitness tools,” says R/GA EVP and global CTO Nick Coronges. Some may find that easier to do with an app subscription than with a gym membership.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Based in Seattle, Campher was most recently VP of corporate marketing at social media management platform Hootsuite. The company also promoted Chris McGuire to chief technology officer, taking over from Thinkific co-founder Matt Payne who will now be SVP of innovation. Downs left the Seattle startup in 2018.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer. At Blue Nile, a Seattle-based online jewelry retailer, Gower was VP of technology. She was previously senior director of technology and product at T-Mobile and a consultant at Slalom Consulting. and Sanofi Pasteur. Leigh Gower.

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Vox

JANUARY 11, 2023

He’ll keep building the metaverse, but he’ll focus most of his time on improving Meta’s core social media business (Facebook and Instagram) and finding new ways to expand the company’s popular but less profitable messaging apps. billion people — nearly half the world — making it by far the biggest social media company on the planet.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Itucas continues to lead product and operations at the startup, which participated in the 2018 Techstars Seattle accelerator program. ” Skilljar raised $16 million in 2018. ” The national initiative helps lower-income students take technology courses tuition-free and connects them with internships. Winner: Year Up.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Commercial corporations in the Internet Age face endlessly growing data asset management – but traditional business technology isn’t the way to help, argues Neo Technology’s Emil Eifrem. Digital consumers are generating data at an exponential rate, via social networking, emails, blogs and smartphones. A variety of use cases.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. In fact, at the time, the were mixed signals as a result of the report.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Davidson was most recently an executive at digital product design platform InVision, which he joined in 2018. Dana Storms was promoted to executive director of performance management and chief risk officer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Dana Storms. PNNL Photo).

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2020

Once TikTok is acquired, Mayer could end up “reporting to someone who likely wants to use TikTok for a different strategy,” said Tal Chalozin, chief technology officer at analytics firm Innovid. It’s a good fit: Pappas has worked with ByteDance on TikTok since 2018, becoming the platform’s general manager in January 2019.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2021

“I am honored to join the leadership team at Magic Leap to be a part of redefining how enterprises engage with augmented reality technologies,” said Gosalia. Gosalia will work with recently appointed CTO Paul Greco and fellow Microsoft veteran Tracey Trewin, who joined Magic Leap last month as chief product officer.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

He was later appointed chief technology officer in October 2017, during which time he’s jumped in to address high-profile problems (like a large-scale password security issue) and take on some of the company’s bolder initiatives (like decentralization). Argrawal hasn’t spent much time in the public eye — until now.

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Vox

JANUARY 7, 2021

The largely unmoderated and right-wing social network was also involved in the planning of the insurrection , leading some to worry that Parler is a new hotbed of misinformation and extremist activity. Parler, an app and website that promises free speech online, has been around since 2018.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s social media — minus the curation algorithms and content moderation. Parler, which has been around since 2018, looks at first glance a lot like Twitter and Facebook. Overall, the site appears like an amalgamation of some of the most odious factions of social media, centralized on one platform that’s attracted millions of users.

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Vox

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The report from Democrats argues that Facebook has expanded its monopolistic power in the social media industry by using a “copy, acquire, kill” strategy against its competitors and by unfairly hurting rival companies like Instagram (which the company purchased in 2012). that are building networks that are competitive with our own.”

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