Insights from Microsoft’s successes and struggles

A new book, The Insider's Guide to Innovation at Microsoft, finds universal business lessons in the company's successes and failures, through case studies about different products and teams — including Xbox, Bing, Office, and more. The authors, JoAnn Garbin and Dean Carignan , above, are 微软 business and innovation leaders who studied the company from the inside.

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Strix Leviathan (Acquired Feb 2025) , a Seattle-based digital assets startup, has been acquired by Parataxis Capital , a crypto hedge fund based in New York City. Strix CEO Sadie Raney will transition to a new Seattle fintech startup she’s leading called Eve Wealth . Read more.

From self-driving cars to in-home robots: Marc Whitten , a veteran tech executive and former Cruise CEO with roots in the Seattle region, joined Meta to lead a new team working on humanoid robots. Read more.

AI will transform parts of healthcare — but for early stage startups, it won’t be easy cracking into a sector that’s highly regulated and historically slow to adopt new technologies. That’s the word from Nader Naini , a longtime managing partner at Seattle-based firm Frazier Healthcare Partners . Read more.

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