Madrona opens Silicon Valley office as it looks beyond Seattle for investments

Madrona looks beyond its backyard: The opening of a new Silicon Valley office reflects a recent push by the longstanding Seattle firm to invest outside of the Pacific Northwest. Madrona just hired a new managing director to lead the Palo Alto outpost. Read more. 

Tech Moves: ExtraHop adds four new execs; USAFacts hires a CMO; and more personnel changes. 

8K views of the Titanic wreckage: Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate Expeditions set a new standard for documenting the condition of the 110-year-old ocean liner thanks to a high-definition video system that was installed aboard its submersible. Read more.

Backyard homes: Abodu, a Redwood City, Calif.-based startup that manufactures and delivers detached accessory dwelling units, is launching in the Seattle area.

This Amazon football is a stretch: Ahead of its Thursday games on Prime Video, the company is promoting a “redesigned football” with some absurd throws from star NFL quarterbacks. 

Bill Gates can’t stop playing Wordle: Obsessed with the popular puzzle game, the Microsoft co-founder shares some of his strategies for solving it fast.