Jake Bullinger, Author at 425 Business

The Startup Starter

When home-improvement giant Lowe’s bought ATGStores, the e-commerce company Gary Rubens founded in 1999, friends started telling the Woodinville resident it was time to take his haul and get into…

Tech

Want Artificial Intelligence? Lawyer Up

A recent Stanford University report told us not to fear artificial intelligence. What it didn’t tell us was whether we should fear its legal implications. The people who study artificial…

News

Downtown Bellevue has become a residential hotspot, and developers are bullish on its future Bellevue-based developer Plus Investment USA could be a bellwether for its city’s booming downtown real estate…

Startup

The Anywhere Office

To better serve clients whose employees work remotely, Bellevue-based Carpool Agency decided to conduct an experiment and allow its workers to work anywhere for a month. Here’s what they learned.…

News, Startup, Tech

Weekly Reads: The Cloud’s Gotta Work

I was an early adopter of cloud computing. I purchased a Samsung Chromebook waay back in 2012, and often bragged about the practicality of cloud storage: I could toss the laptop…

News

T-Mobile Still Racing for Subscribers

The price slashes, promotions, and perks instituted by T-Mobile US in recent years have all been in the name of subscriber growth. By that measure, the “Un-carrier” marketing platform instituted…

News, Startup, Tech

Weekly Reads: AI’s Not So Scary

Artificial intelligence terrifies some people. There are concerns that AI will take over jobs and, eventually, take over society and throw humanity into a precisely dug smoldering pit. Tech folks, for numerous reasons,…

News, Startup, Tech

Weekly Reads: Housing Confusion

The real-estate discourse can be confusing in a red-hot housing market like Seattle’s. Anecdotally, complaints are common: The Eastside and Seattle are becoming remarkably expensive, and that’s not fun for…

News, Startup, Tech

Weekly Reads: Amazon’s Part-Timers

The promise of technology has long been to deliver a life of leisure. Internal combustion, electricity, telecommunications, computers, and the internet all had the potential to alleviate work for humans — a…

News, Tech

A Coding Reboot

Trade school Coding Dojo claims it can turn anybody into an entry-level programmer in 14 weeks. Is the Bellevue-based company sparking economic reform at the same time? Growing up in…

Written by Jake Bullinger

The Startup Starter

Want Artificial Intelligence? Lawyer Up

Can Downtown Keep Rising?

The Anywhere Office

Weekly Reads: The Cloud’s Gotta Work

T-Mobile Still Racing for Subscribers

Weekly Reads: AI’s Not So Scary

Weekly Reads: Housing Confusion

Weekly Reads: Amazon’s Part-Timers

A Coding Reboot