Amazon shareholders send a message on exec pay, labor, and environment

Amazon vote results: New numbers reveal an undercurrent of Amazon shareholder opposition to the company’s board and management on issues including executive pay, the environment, and working conditions. An Amazon filing late Friday showed more close votes at this week’s annual meeting than at any other point in the company’s recent history. Read more.

Related: We recap and analyze Amazon’s shareholder meeting on the GeekWire Podcast with former Amazon GM Andrea Leigh, founder and CEO of Allume Group, an e-commerce learning company. Read more and listen.

Digital home closing startup shutting down: JetClosing, a 6-year-old Seattle startup that used machine learning, cloud computing and other technology to move the title and escrow process online, is ending operations on June 15.

Life sciences roundup: Two University of Washington researchers land on Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” list; a leader in cancer research says “our academic promotion process needs to be blown apart”; and more Pacific Northwest life sciences news of note.   

‘We’re going to produce a lot more startups’: That’s the optimistic outlook from Peter Rowan, executive director of the Albers Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at Seattle University, who is on a mission to get SU more plugged into the tech ecosystem. Read the GeekWire interview.

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