Culture, Capacity And Craftsmanship: How To Hire For A Startup

There’s a lot of glory and fun when you’re immersed in the startup experience. Building a team from scratch usually means that everything is fresh and unwritten. Joining a new venture to do something that’s never been done before is exhilarating. And having an impact…

100 Best Companies to Work For 2015

Seattle Business magazine honored its 100 Best Companies to Work For at an awards dinner on July 1, 2015, at the Washington State Convention Center. The winners, hailing from cities all across the state of Washington, were chosen based on extensive confidential surveys completed by employees.

Seattle's Best Places to Work 2015

The Swingerators are the first thing to greet visitors to the lobby of Ivy Softworks, but they’re more than toys to the employees. The wood swings, made from old bleacher seats, would be at home in a playground, but ...

Catching up with Brian Valentine, former Windows and Amazon engineering chief

Brian Valentine was a legendary figure inside Microsoft, as the executive leading the engineering teams for the Windows 2000 and Windows XP releases. He left in 2006 to work as a senior executive at Amazon, and has since...

Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter and tech vet Brian Valentine on their new venture

Is there a better way to start and grow startups, and keep the founding team together for the long haul? Our guests on the GeekWire radio show are two well-known members of the tech community who are tackling that challenge.

Interview with Bay Area Ventures

Jordan Ritter and Brian Valentine discuss the Innovation Studio on Wharton Business Radio.

Former Microsoft and Amazon executive Brian Valentine talks about his new role at Ivy Softworks

For decades, Brian Valentine led big projects at big companies. At Microsoft, where he worked from 1987 to 2006, Valentine led the Exchange, Windows XP and Windows 2000 teams. At Amazon.com, where he…

The anti-startup: Former Amazon exec, Napster co-founder try new way to start a company

Jordan Ritter's least-favorite part about running a startup is losing the team he put so much effort into carefully building and growing. The company gets bigger, it goes under, it gets acquired, whatever the…

Ex-Microsoft and Amazon exec Brian Valentine joins stealthy startup incubator led by Napster co-founder

Brian Valentine, a former Microsoft exec who most recently served as senior vice president of Amazon.com’s e-commerce platform, has joined Ivy Softworks as a managing principal.

Seattle Start-Up Factory Hires Former Amazon and Microsoft Executive

Ivy Softworks is a new start-up factory that has devised what its founder says is a better way to create tech companies. Now the plan has attracted Brian Valentine, a prominent engineer and executive who worked for years at Microsoft and Amazon.

Napster co-founder emerges in Seattle with stealth ‘innovation studio,’ calls Silicon Valley unhealthy

Jordan Ritter grew up as an only child, never really putting down roots as his family moved between California, Texas and Florida. That nomadic and sometimes lonely experience impacted Ritter in his later years as...