Richard Tait, 1964-2022: ‘Cranium’ inventor and serial entrepreneur was ‘the ultimate dreamer’ Richard Tait, the longtime Seattle entrepreneur who co-founded the wildly popular board game “Cranium” after spending 10 years at Microsoft,… Read More
Tadataka Yamada, 1945-2021: Pioneer in drug development led global health at Gates Foundation Tadataka Yamada, a pioneer in drug and vaccine development who helped forge numerous biotech companies and spent five years at… Read More
Alan Corwin, 1946-2021: Anchor Computer founder was an early pioneer in PC sales and Seattle tech Seattle’s tech history is populated with pioneering figures such as Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Jeff Bezos, whose work on… Read More
Former Rover board member and pet-tech veteran Aaron Hirschhorn dies in Miami boating accident Aaron Hirschhorn, a tech veteran and former board member at Seattle-based Rover, died Sunday in a boating accident near Miami… Read More
William Ruckelshaus, Madrona director, former EPA leader and key Watergate figure, dies at 87 William Ruckelshaus, a fixture in the Seattle business community with a storied history of civil service, died Wednesday at his… Read More
Mighty AI co-founder Matt Bencke dies at 45 after battle with pancreatic cancer Matt Bencke, a fixture in Seattle’s technology community and co-founder of the startup Mighty AI, passed away on Wednesday after… Read More
Music icon Prince dead at 57 — the Internet reacts, and his reaction to the Internet lives on News of the death of Prince spread rapidly on the Internet on Thursday as tweets and Facebook posts conveyed the… Read More
Man killed in Seattle windstorm was a Pokémon creative design director Posted by Eric Medalle on Saturday, February 27, 2016 Eric Medalle, the man who died when a tree fell on… Read More
A tribute to Doug Walker: Seattle celebrates the life of tech philanthropist killed in avalanche Doug Walker scaled some of the world’s tallest peaks, scurrying up them with endless energy and unbridled enthusiasm. And while… Read More
NanoString chief medical officer J. Wayne Cowens passes away at the age of 67 Dr. J. Wayne Cowens, the chief medical officer at Seattle-based NanoString Technologies, has died at the age of 67. “We… Read More
Obituary: Former ATL Ultrasound CEO Gordon Kuenster helped spark the NW tech industry Gordon Kuenster, one of the first successful tech entrepreneurs in the Seattle area, died recently at the age of 80.… Read More
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 Steve Jobs, the legendary Apple co-founder, has died at the age of 56. Jobs’ influence on technology started with the… Read More
Michael Hart, inventor of the eBook, dies at age 64 Tacoma native and electronic book pioneer Michael S. Hart has died at the age of 64. Before Kindle, Nook or… Read More
Seattle startup community mourns passing of Tom Music It is with great sadness that I report that Tom Music has died at the age of 31 after a… Read More
