This swanky office and warehouse felt the tech boom and bust like no other property in the region, as the former home not only of HomeGrocer but also, at different points, of ShareBuilder and Craig McCaw’s Teledesic — which oversaw an upscale remodel of the interior, adding a huge mezzanine space and high-end amenities.
Grab a latte, score a venture capital deal? You might just have that luck if you pop into the Starbucks in Seattle’s tony Madison Park neighborhood. The late Keith Grinstein of Second Avenue Partners hung out there so much that some in the venture community simply called it “Keith’s office.”
This dorm was at the forefront a social media revolution. Brad Fitzpatrick was a University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering student in 1999 when he developed the pioneering LiveJournal blogging service, working primarily in this building, Mercer Hall East.
Via email recently, Fitzpatrick confirmed the location for us, saying he didn’t remember the room number, ... - Read full post
OK, so N. 34th Street isn’t really the Center of the Universe for technology, but it’s in the “Center of the Universe,” Seattle’s irreverent Fremont neighborhood, and there’s a remarkable number of technology and life sciences companies located in this corridor.
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