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Former Seahawks star leads new Seattle startup: Doug Baldwin recently became CEO of Ventrk, a healthcare spinout of Intellectual Ventures. We caught up with Baldwin to talk about why he took the role and lessons he’s applying from the football field. Read the Q&A. 

The new geography of tech pay: Driven by the rise of remote work, startup compensation in Seattle and the Bay Area is now at parity, a new study finds. The broader convergence of tech pay across the country could have far-reaching implications for hiring. Read more. 

Prime Day preview: Economic uncertainty, inflation, and the lingering effects of the pandemic are tempering expectations for the annual Amazon sales event that takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

When are we going back to the office? A new Seattle real estate market report found that “the anticipated wave of migration back to the physical workplace has failed to materialize.” Read more. 

New video of 2018 plane theft at Sea-Tac: In case you missed it last week, the Port of Seattle has released new surveillance footage of the bizarre incident in which Horizon Air employee Richard Russell stole a passenger plane and later crashed it on an island south of Seattle.

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