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Tom Alberg

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What we learned from the life of early Amazon investor and Seattle business leader Tom Alberg

Seattle-based investor and business leader Tom Alberg, who died last week at the age of 82, was a key figure… Read More

Remembering Tom Alberg: How an understated investor had an outsized impact on Seattle tech

Tom Alberg will be remembered publicly for everything he did to help create and shape the Seattle region’s tech industry,… Read More

Tom Alberg, 1940-2022: Early Amazon investor was a champion of Pacific Northwest tech

Tom Alberg, a Seattle business and civic leader who played an instrumental role in the creation of industries ranging from… Read More

Book excerpt: How tech and government can spin the flywheels of equitable prosperity together

“Flywheels: How Cities are Creating Their Own Futures,” is a new book by Tom Alberg, former Amazon board member, and… Read More

Washington winery with tech connections hopes to uncork some of the hype around NFTs

A Washington state winery with tech connections is getting into the NFT game with a sale of three unique digital… Read More

Former Amazon board member Tom Alberg reviews the new book, ‘Working Backwards’

[Editor’s Note: Tom Alberg, managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, was an Amazon investor who served… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: AI that writes your emails; a Seattle tech visionary; trivia challenge returns

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: OthersideAI thinks it can help you be more productive… Read More

How Tom Alberg bet on Seattle and Amazon, shaping the region’s tech industry and building a legacy of understated influence

It was the mid 1990s, and Tom Alberg had a decision to make. Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and… Read More

Two worthy books trace the history of tech through Silicon Valley, leaving Seattle’s story still to be told

Editor’s Note: In this guest post, Tom Alberg, Madrona Venture Group managing director, reviews The Code: Silicon Valley and the… Read More

Can Seattle become a financial technology hub? Why some tech leaders are banking on it

Madrona Venture Group managing partner Tom Alberg has witnessed and participated in the rise of the aerospace, wireless and e-commerce… Read More

Why this early Amazon investor is backing an effort to shake up the Seattle City Council

One of the biggest names in Seattle tech is a founding member of a new political action committee that wants… Read More

Early Amazon investor Tom Alberg to leave board, 23 years after betting on Jeff Bezos’ little startup

More than 23 years after betting on a small startup called Amazon.com, Tom Alberg, the company’s longest-standing board member, is… Read More

Quantum computing is coming: Here’s why Seattle needs to get our computer science workforce ready

Editor’s note: Tom Alberg is a co-founder and managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group. He is… Read More

Alliance of Angels still helping entrepreneurs take flight, 20 years after initial spark from Tom Alberg, Bill Gates Sr. and Tom Cable

Two decades ago, Bill Gates Sr., Tom Alberg and Tom Cable jointly sent a letter to friends and colleagues with… Read More

Amazon board member says company will keep growing in Seattle

There was a lot of hand-wringing last week in Seattle after Amazon dropped the bombshell that it plans to spend… Read More

Tech leaders differ over Amazon’s future in Seattle and the logic behind ‘HQ2’

Amazon’s splashy announcement that it plans to build a second North American headquarters has stirred debate across the nation, and that… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Why Amazon is so secretive: Longtime board member explains the company’s mindset

Amazon.com’s famously close-mouthed ways go back all the way to its IPO or further, says Tom Alberg, the online-retailing giant’s first… Read More

Seattle venture capitalist Tom Alberg wants to buy even more Impinj stock at IPO

Madrona Venture Group was one of the earliest investors in Impinj, helping to jumpstart the Seattle maker of RFID technology… Read More

Grammy Award-winning musician Ryan Lewis on Snapchat, his love of MS-DOS and advice for 10-year-olds

You don’t know what you’re passionate about until you have the chance to try. That was one insight from Grammy… Read More

Q&A: Madrona’s Tom Alberg on the changing winds of venture capital, tech bubbles and bankrolling a young Jeff Bezos

Tom Alberg did not have grand ambitions when he co-founded Madrona Venture Group with a few high-powered business buddies 20… Read More

Steve Singh

Concur CEO Steve Singh: How a strong culture got us through the dark times

At the end of the day, it’s all about culture. That was the message from Concur CEO Steve Singh, who spoke… Read More

Why George Gilder is right about the role entrepreneurs play in driving the economy

In his new book Knowledge and Power, futurist George Gilder challenges existing economic theories of both Keynesians and libertarians by placing creativity,… Read More

Newly-formed W Fund includes heavy hitters from Seattle venture capital

University of Washington vice provost of commercialization Linden Rhoads wants the state’s largest research institutions to spin-out more innovative technologies,… Read More

Demo Day: Advice from ‘The Godfathers’ of Seattle tech (Video)

A few weeks ago, Andy Sack and other members of TechStars made a plea to the entrepreneurial titans of Seattle to… Read More

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