GeekWire Mid-Week Update

Read the top tech stories so far this week from GeekWire [GeekWire Mid-Week Update] Top stories so far this week [Seattle’s new CTO brings Silicon Valley experience north to take on city’s tech challenges]( Rob Lloyd grew up a military kid who lived in 12 states and three countries and went to seven schools by the time he graduated high school. [Docusign co-founder launches firm to help entrepreneurs improve their odds of success]( Court Lorenzini, a technology industry veteran who co-founded e-signature giant Docusign and three other companies, is launching a new endeavor called Founder Nexus that wants to help entrepreneurs supercharge their businesses. [Allen Institute for AI’s new office lease bolsters an emerging artificial intelligence corridor in Seattle]( The Allen Institute for AI has leased a full floor in the new Northlake Commons building in Seattle, part of a growing AI corridor. [Amazon plans logistics site in new industrial building on former Weyerhaeuser campus]( Amazon plans to use a new building on the former Weyerhaeuser corporate campus in Federal Way, Wash., as a future logistics site for customer fulfillment. [Report details financial pressure on Amazon Alexa, confirms plans for paid tier and AI revamp]( Internal Amazon accounting techniques have overestimated the financial impact from Alexa and Echo, a new report says. [Clean-tech pioneer First Mode is giving its employees advance warning about layoffs]( First Mode, a company that concentrates on cleaner tech for heavy industry, has alerted its employees to a significant round of layoffs. [CrowdStrike outage hits 8.5M Windows devices; Microsoft collaborates with Amazon and Google]( The flawed update from cybersecurity software company CrowdStrike has affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a post Saturday detailing its ongoing response to the extraordinary global IT outage. [Vancouver legal tech company Clio lands $900M at $3B valuation]( Clio raised $900 million, boosting its valuation to $3 billion in what the company describes as the largest capital raise for a cloud-based legal software company ever. [Business lessons from Windows Vista: Insights from a forgotten trove of internal Microsoft emails]( There’s still a lot to learn from Vista. [Seattle startup QA Wolf raises $36M to help companies spot bugs in software code]( QA Wolf, a Seattle startup that sells software to help companies scan their code for bugs or glitches, raised $36 million in a Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners. GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [BRINC: Content Writer]( - [Echodyne: Sr. Electrical Engineer – Analog & Mixed Signal]( - [INRIX: Software Development Engineer]( - [BRINC: Senior/Principal Backend & Platform Software Engineer]( - [INRIX: Senior Technical Program Manager]( - [BRINC: Senior/Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer]( - [INRIX: Chief Marketing Officer]( - [Pioneer Square Labs: Principal]( [FIND MORE JOBS ON GEEKWORK]( [HIRING? BUY A FEATURED LISTING TO APPEAR HERE]( [About GeekWire]( [Contact Us]( [Advertise]( Copyright © 2024 GeekWire LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted to receive emails from GeekWire LLC.  Our mailing address is: GeekWire LLC 123 NW 36th St, Suite 203 Seattle, WA 98107  [change email frequency or address]( | [unsubscribe](