Microsoft Quote by James B. Stewart

Seattle's got a great work force, relatively low cost of starting a company, and just a really good, innovative entrepreneurial DNA. To me it's…

— Dan Levitan

Most of the tech CEOs I know used to think that moving to the Midwest or the South was beneath us, a good tactic…

— Glenn Kelman

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

— Dan Levitan

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

— Krist Novoselic

We don't think of HQ1 being Seattle any longer. We really think of it as Puget Sound.

— Andy Jassy

Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So…

— Chris Cornell

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things…

— Tom Robbins

“Business historian Simon Head, in his book Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans, writes that Amazon is a “prime example of how…

— Jonathan Taplin

We all remember the tech bubble of the late '90s, but companies like Amazon survived. Wherever there's strong, enduring value, it can last through…

— Tim Sweeney

Oh, I grew up in Seattle.

— DeAndre Yedlin

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were…

— Jonathan Raymond

I know that the Seattle my parents knew is not the Seattle I know and that these things exist in a state of constant…

— Ben Gibbard