How a New Program Helps Seattle’s Big-Tech Workers Become Founders

April 8, 2020

“Brietta Easterlin and friends had secured most of the essentials for an Expedia coworker’s birthday banger—a room atop a downtown apartment building, a keg, pint glasses with HTML printed on them. One party staple was missing, though: food. Shouldn’t be a problem, Easterlin figured. Yet, after two weeks of unreturned calls, endless online forms, and insulting price negotiations, it would take a friend’s connection for Easterlin to finally pin down a private chef. All the hassle left her wondering, Why was this so hard?”

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