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MAY 9, 2024

Williams was previously president of Wizards, the Hasbro-owned game company behind Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons. She left the company last month. The company laid off 12% of its workforce in August, and its president resigned in March. based pop culture collectibles maker Funko. She’ll also join the board.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The news: Five startups jostled for $200,000 in funding in the final round of the Seattle Angel Conference , with new medical device company BrainSpace rising to the top. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Amazon is making more real estate moves east of Seattle, adding hundreds of Amazon Web Services roles in Redmond, Wash. The plans, announced Tuesday, come as Amazon has shown an increasing fondness for growing on the other side of Lake Washington, across from the company’s sprawling urban headquarters in Seattle.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Early Amazon employee and angel investor Meredith Han is now vice president of product at Seattle real estate startup FlyHomes. . The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. based digital services company PK (formerly ProKarma) appointed Dinesh Venugopal as its new CEO.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Industry : Real estate.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. The former Porch COO remains a board member of the Seattle company.

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JULY 9, 2020

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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