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— Freight marketplace Convoy announced John Morrow as its new general counsel, effective Nov. 1. A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five…
/PRNewswire/ -- Perch, a technology-driven commerce company that acquires and operates top Amazon third-party and other D2C brands at scale, and one of the...
The Columbia Missourian reports that Wally Funk, 82, will be the oldest person to go into space. She graduated from the Stephens College aviation program in 1958 and was later a member of the Mercury 13, a group of female pilots who were tested to see if women were fit for space travel. But the program was cancelled and Funk was never accepted into NASA. Bezos is the founder of Blue Origin, builder of the reusable New Shepherd rocket. Funk and Bezos will be members of the first New Shepherd crew to go into space on July 20.
Former Amazon employee Gabe Kaminsky and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., sounded off Thursday about the former's previous work as a low-level employee of the Jeff Bezos-founded e-commerce behemoth on "Fox News Primetime".
Ex-Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn leaves venture capital post after 5 weeks on job Geekwire 1 day ago John Cook © Provided by Geekwire Former Amazon executive Jeff Blackburn speaks at his alma mater, Dartmouth College, in 2015. (Dartmouth/Eli Burakian Photo, used with permission.) When Jeff Blackburnannounced his retirement from Amazon in February after 22 years, the longtime Jeff Bezos lieutenant stressed that he was not retiring and hinted at news to come on his next move. That caused a wave of speculation in the GeekWire newsroom about the big tech, media or sports compani...