Dan Jewett and MacKenzie Scott. (Photo via The Giving Pledge) MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist whose fortune is linked to the early days of Amazon, has married Seattle science teacher Dan Jewett. Scott was previously married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, but the couple divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage. Jewett is a … Read more
The product manager is possibly one of the grayest roles within a startup. However, as a company evolves and the team grows, a founder needs to identify certain roles. Of these positions, product management is possibly one of the hardest and most important tasks to fill. Ken Norton, who recently quit his job as Product … Read more
Facebook has made a public commitment to fighting racism, but there are concerns that don’t translate into its recruiting practices. According to Reuters sources, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is investigating possible “systemic” racism in the recruitment and promotion of Facebook employees. Facebook program manager Oscar Veneszee Jr. and four candidates have reportedly … Read more
A vaccination campaign in Mozambique. (Denis Onyodi / VillageReach Photo) While scientists have been able to manufacture and test COVID-19 vaccines in a near-unimaginable record breaking time, vaccine delivery in the US has been bumpy, slow, and unfair. What is to blame for the chaotic rollout? “The classic trap the US fell into … is … Read more
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iCloud has had service issues on occasion, but the latest issue seems very … specific. Actress and writer Rachel True claims iCloud effectively banned her from her account because of the way her last name was spelled. According to reports, your Mac considered lowercase letters to be “true” for a Boolean (true or false) flag … Read more
GeekWire illustration. The battle between Amazon and Shopify is a little juicier now. Shopify’s cheeky social media team – or, if you will, SaaSy – fired up some pointy tweets this week asking Amazon in subtle and not-so-subtle ways to supposedly make copycat products. The tweets appear to be in response to a video posted … Read more
After TechCrunch went broke News yesterday that Coursera was planning to file its S-1 today, the edtech company officially dropped the document on Friday evening. Coursera was last valued at $ 2.4 billion in the private markets when it last launched a Series F round valued at $ 130 million in October 2020. Coursera’s S-1 … Read more
If you’ve used social media a lot, you’ve seen the first tweet ever. Posted on March 21, 2006 by Twitter co-founder and current CEO Jack Dorsey, It didn’t say much, “I’m just setting up my twttr.” Thanks to the wild west of NFTs – crypto-authenticated tokens that uniquely value and verify digital objects – you … Read more
“What happens here is important everywhere.” GeekWire’s renovated conference room, themed about the Seattle area tech community, awaits our return to the office. (BCRA Design Photo) Anniversaries are not news! This has been our stance as long as we’ve been business and tech reporters, or at least since we realized that covering arbitrary milestones would … Read more