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OceanGate’s former director of marine operations, David Lochridge, holds up a document during his testimony to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Marine Investigation Board. (USCG via YouTube) Whistleblower David Lochridge said today that his concerns about OceanGate and its approach to undersea exploration began long before the company built the submersible...
Kirsten Paust. (Fortive Photo) Kirsten Paust, a longtime leader at publicly traded manufacturing giant Fortive, took a new job at Microsoft as a corporate vice president focusing on continuous improvement. Paust spent eight years as an executive at Everett, Wash.-based Fortive. She also spent more than 12 years at global conglomerate...
The former Zulily headquarters building in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Former employees at Seattle-based e-commerce company Zulily filed a class action lawsuit this week alleging that they did not receive adequate advance notice or pay related to widespread layoffs last year. The suit alleges that Zulily’s former owner,...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in 2021. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Amazon went through a one-way door against its will. Now it wants to go back. And its future is at stake. That’s one way of looking at Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s memo to employees Monday morning. The headlines were the full return-to-office and the thinning of Amazon management...
Athira CEO Mark Litton. (Athira Photo) Seattle-based biotech company Athira Pharma is laying off 49 people, or about 70% of its workforce, as part of cost-cutting measures and a restructuring. Athira, which went public in 2020, is developing drugs for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. The company’s stock took...
(Arzeda Photo) Arzeda, a protein design startup that generates new enzymes for industrial, agricultural and other applications, announced a $38 million investment round. The Seattle-based company creates blueprints for enzymes using protein design software. Arzeda also tests and develops the enzymes in its labs. Customers include...
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