{"id":543642,"date":"2010-04-26T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=75905"},"modified":"2010-04-26T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T20:50:43","slug":"seattle-tech-luminaries-in-the-news-redfin-jeremy-jaech-and-kindle-vs-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543642","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Tech Luminaries in the News: Redfin, Jeremy Jaech, and Kindle Vs. iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Just a quick roundup of Seattle-area tech leaders making the national news this weekend:<\/p>\n

—The New Yorker has a very interesting feature<\/a> by Ken Auletta about the competition between the Amazon Kindle and Apple\u2019s iPad, and what it means for the future of books. I haven\u2019t had time for it to sink in yet, but a couple quotes in the story stand out. One is an unnamed Apple insider saying, \u201c[Steve Jobs] thinks Amazon is stupid, and made a terrible mistake insisting that books should be priced at $9.99.\u201d The other is an unnamed book publisher, who says, \u201cAmazon sees itself as much as a competitor as a retailer. They have aspirations to be a publisher.\u201d (Does anyone have the guts to speak on the record anymore, even when they are just stating the obvious?)<\/p>\n

—Speaking of Seattle vs. Silicon Valley, TechCrunch reported<\/a> that Seattle-based Redfin, the online real estate firm, is making $30 million a year in revenue and is poised to \u201crip apart\u201d the real estate industry. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman sat down with Michael Arrington for a revealing video interview over beers (always a dangerous proposition).<\/p>\n

—Tech industry leader Jeremy Jaech, the co-founder of Aldus, Visio, and Trumba, and currently CEO of Seattle-based Verdiem, got some nice exposure<\/a> in the New York Times Sunday business column called \u201cThe Boss.\u201d Among other things, Jaech talks about trying to retire a couple of times when his companies have been acquired, but always going back to work for \u201cthe joy of collaborating with a bright team of people to move an idea forward and watch it grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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