Andy Jassy and the future of Amazon: What does Andy Jassy’s track record at Amazon Web Services say about how he’ll lead Amazon as the company’s next CEO? On a new episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we answer that question and many others, joined by Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, who closely follows AWS with a unique blend of humor and insight.
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Applying Amazon principles at a startup: Steven Halliwell spent more than seven years at the Seattle tech giant. Now, as chief product officer for Promethean, he’s tried to implement some of Amazon’s iconic business approaches. “There is a push and a pull there,” he said, when it comes to bringing these concepts to a new culture. Read more about Halliwell in our latest Working Geek profile.
Next week on GeekWire: A conversation with one of the authors of “Working Backwards,” a new book about the company by two former insiders.
How tech can diversify boardrooms: Digital networks and data crunching can improve corporate board diversity and bust the “pipeline problem” myth, writes Charlotte Guyman, a founding senior strategist with Seattle-based BoardReady.
Read more. PNW life sciences cluster: Speakers at this week’s Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference believe there are unexplored opportunities for scientific researchers and biotechnology companies to collaborate more along the Cascadia corridor.
Carbon-capture company raises $75M: Vancouver, B.C.-based Svante called the round “the largest private investment into point source carbon capture globally to date.”
Read more. Thanks for reading, have a great weekend, and see all our latest headlines below. — GeekWire managing editor Taylor Soper, taylor@geekwire.com, and editor Todd Bishop, editor@geekwire.com.
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