Two former Amazon leaders share why an RTO mandate and the AI boom led them to quit — and their advice for others weighing a ...

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Shalini Aggarwal, a 50-year-old CEO in San Jose, California, and Andy Ratsirason, a 37-year-old CTO. The two left Amazon at different times and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon has reached a deal to buy San Francisco-based Bee, a startup making an artificial intelligence-enabled bracelet to listen in on and transcribe conversations. Bee's $50 ...

SEATTLE — Amazon is aiming to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company,” said CEO Andy Jassy in his annual letter to shareholders. In explaining what makes the $638 billion e-commerce company “tick,” ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on Jul 22, 2025 at ...

William Tunstall-Pedoe founded True Knowledge, later Evi, which Amazon acquired to build Alexa. He left Amazon in 2016 after almost four years at the tech giant to re-enter the startup world. He used ...

Slope, an AI lending platform backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and JPMorgan Chase, told CNBC exclusively that it is launching a partnership with Amazon's independent sellers. The deal will allow ...

"The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven and it's not even really AI driven, not right now at least," Jassy said. "It really, it's culture." Jassy admitted that ...