by Joleen Hughes | Oct 9, 2019 | YBSR Podcast
Dave Young wasn’t content wearing a suit as a Wall Street analyst or finance manager at a major telecom company. Instead, he donned a motorcycle jacket and cracked the proverbial code to develop ground-breaking patents in cloud storage with his lifelong friends and...
by Joleen Hughes | Oct 2, 2019 | YBSR Podcast
Concise and lean is the name of the game. Ian Freed, former RealNeworks mafia member and current CEO and Co-Founder of Bamboo Learning, has been at the forefront of some of our most compelling and transformative consumer products of the past couple of decades. While...
by Joleen Hughes | Sep 25, 2019 | YBSR Podcast
Jennessa West’s rise to power producer in Seattle started with her passion for film. Beginning with Seattle production jobs for DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and Walt Disney, Jennessa moved to Hollywood to work on episodic television for Warner Brothers, CBS and FX....
by Joleen Hughes | Sep 18, 2019 | YBSR Podcast
John Cook, is the founder of Seattle’s seminal tech startup/publication Geekwire. A former journalist from an entrepreneurial family, John and his co-founder, Todd Bishop started GeekWire to bring stories of the amazing start-ups in Seattle, Washington to the world....
by Joleen Hughes | Sep 11, 2019 | YBSR Podcast
Kari Gran and Lisa Strain have used the mantra “it will always work out” to turn a bootstrapped cosmetics brand into a funded “we-can-do-anything” business. Former real estate colleagues, they became business partners after Kari’s career burn-out inspired her to...
