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Jeff Blackburn lands at Bessemer | How Biden can spark entrepreneurship ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: Become a GeekWire member: [Support independent journalism and join today!]( TODAY'S TOP STORIES T-cells vs. antibodies: For people trying to figure out if they had an undiagnosed case of COVID-19 in the past, Adaptive Biotechnologies’ new T-Detect COVID test could be a key development. It promises to detect tell-tale signs of the disease in the immune system’s T-cells earlier and longer than antibody tests, and with a higher degree of accuracy. [On a new episode of our Health Tech Podcast]( GeekWire’s Todd Bishop tries the new test and gets the inside details from the Seattle-based company’s chief medical officer, Lance Baldo. “This is a seminal, once-every-decade shift in the employee-employer relationship.” That’s the take from Henry Albrecht, CEO of Seattle-area employee experience tech company Limeade, [speaking about Microsoft’s motivation for launching its new employee experience platform, Viva](. Albrecht and his co-founders started Limeade in 2006, recognizing the value of the market back when Microsoft was launching Windows Vista, and some guy named Satya Nadella had just been picked to run the company’s business applications group. Search for software ‘Bliss’ lives on: The iconic desktop wallpaper image that shipped with Microsoft’s Windows XP in 2001 is a real photo of a real place. The story of the grassy, blue-sky location in California wine country and the photographer who shot it have been told before — but hill seekers still make the trek. [Read more.]( Tech Moves: - Jeff Blackburn lands at Bessemer: The longtime Amazon exec [who stepped down this week]( after more than two decades at the tech giant [is now an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners](. He’ll remain in Seattle. - Marc Whitten joins Unity: Whitten, another former Amazon leader who oversaw projects such as Fire TV, Kindle, and the upcoming cloud-gaming service Luna, [is now a senior vice president at gaming giant Unity](. How Biden can spark entrepreneurship: The president should push forward a “startup visa” to help foreign-born entrepreneurs grow their companies in the U.S., said National Venture Capital Association CEO Bobby Franklin, who spoke [at a virtual discussion co-hosted by GeekWire and Lane Powell]( about the Biden administration and the entrepreneurial ecosystem. 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