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Meet BRINC Drones: Led by 22-year-old founder and engineer Blake Resnick (above), the fast-growing startup just relocated to Seattle from Las Vegas. The company’s drones help keep first-responders out of dangerous situations. We chatted with Resnick at BRINC's new headquarters to learn more about the startup and lessons from his entrepreneurial journey thus far. Read more

Bezos responds to Musk tweet: The Amazon founder highlighted the homeless shelter that is attached to one of the company’s downtown Seattle office buildings in response to a tweet from Elon Musk, who polled his followers about converting Twitter’s headquarters into a homeless shelter. Read more

Leaving Seattle: A new survey shows that 67% of residents have actively considered moving out of the city due to affordability, public safety and other issues. Here are the survey's key findings.  

Related: With remote work here to stay and more apartments occupied, can downtown Seattle reinvent itself?

Puppet acquisition: The Portland, Ore.-based cloud automation company will be acquired by Perforce Software, which makes developer tools.

STEM Educator of the Year: We are highlighting three STEM education superstars as part of next month’s GeekWire Awards celebration. Read more about these terrific teachers

MacKenzie Scott profile: The New York Times this weekend published a feature on the Seattle billionaire philanthropist, describing her as “arguably the most consequential philanthropist in the world right now — one who is very much operating on her own terms.”

Where are Amazon’s drones? The company has spent more than $2 billion nearly a decade since Jeff Bezos pitched the aerial tech in a 60 Minutes segment. A Bloomberg report examines “a program beset by technical challenges, high turnover and safety concerns.”

Thanks for reading, and have a great week. — GeekWire managing editor Taylor Soper, taylor@geekwire.com.
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