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To kick off 2020, I wanted to recap some of the best articles on what’s going on in the Seattle and Pacific Northwest tech and startup ecosystems...

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In case you want to spend your holidays reading about tech stuff (no judgment!), here are some of the top DL articles from the last year.

Did you know that the Uber, Instagram, FaceTime, and Netflix apps all launched in 2010? Spotify and WhatsApp also launched in 2009. What an insane couple of years (and decade) for VCs and startups focused on mobile.

Which makes more money - consumer or enterprise startups? Sapphire Ventures put together an interesting report looking at trends over the last decade. Here are the takeaways:

Between 2005 and 2017, high tech industries (like software, pharma, aerospace) created 256K jobs in the United States. Seattle accounted for 56K of these jobs, which means 22% (1 in 5) of all new tech jobs were created in Seattle.

Definitely a startup idea in here! Great post on how someone built an automated system to conquer Instagram and get free meals.

People often ask why there aren't more startups in the PNW given all of the local tech talent. Last week, two Microsoft and Amazon alums announced a new program called Venture Out that is aiming to address this opportunity...

Here are the PNW startups that announced new fundraising rounds in the month of November. These 24 companies raised ~$600M last month.

Last week was re:Invent, AWS’s big customer and partner conference. I got a bunch of free socks from enterprise software companies, and AWS announced a ton of new products and services. Key takeaways...