🦄 Seattle tech unicorns make big moves

Sea-Tac loses WiFi crown | Genomics pioneer Lee Hood launches new institute ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: GeekWire's Sounders Day tailgate party returns on Sept. 18th: [Join us for an epic rooftop tailgate party with brews, BBQ and tunes.]( TODAY'S TOP STORIES Two of the Seattle region’s unicorns are growing. On-demand trucking startup Convoy is [bringing on new executives to lead marketing and revenue]( after doubling its employee base to 750 people over the past year. Meanwhile, local marketplace OfferUp is [opening an engineering center in Miami]( its first outside of its Bellevue headquarters. They’re among a small number of privately held Seattle-area companies valued at more than $1 billion. In other big tech moves, [Glassdoor]( [Payscale]( new CEOs, and Amazon‘s global treasurer [has left the company after 15 years](. Lee Hood is on a new mission. The genomics pioneer wants to fight Alzheimer’s without drugs. He's a key figure in the new Seattle-based Brain Health and Research Institute, [using wellness and boatloads of data instead](. [🎟️]( Hood and Convoy CEO Dan Lewis are among the speakers at the GeekWire Summit, Oct. 7-9 in Seattle. [See the rest of the lineup and register](. Female Founders Alliance is back with its second accelerator cohort. The Seattle-based organization aims to help women and non-binary startup leaders land funding and grow their companies in a tech industry that saw just 12 percent of U.S. venture dollars go to teams with a female founder last year. [Check out the cohort companies here](. Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group is flexing its fintech muscle, [leading a $10 million investment round]( in Tesorio, a Burlingame, Calif., startup that uses AI and machine learning to automate and predict cash flow. Madrona is also working to [make Seattle a bigger fintech startup hub](. SeaTac Airport no longer has the fastest WiFi among the nation’s airports, according to a new study. Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport took the crown with a blazing download speed of 145.12 Mbps. [Read the story]( and send it to your boss to justify a Hawaii trip as a work expense. Thanks for reading, and see all of our latest headlines below. If you like our new newsletter format, please encourage a friend or colleague [to sign up](. ― GeekWire editor Todd Bishop, todd@geekwire.com, and managing editor Taylor Soper, taylor@geekwire.com. SPONSOR MESSAGE [[Webinar Series] MongoDB ACID Transactions]( Join us for a two-part webinar series to learn about ACID transactions, code samples, and a deep dive on how to use transactions in your apps based off your job function. Additionally, you’ll get a deep dive in implementation and optimum design patterns for transactions along with anti-patterns you should avoid. 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