A Bellevue network specialist lost its office to fire, then kept building the systems other businesses depend on. Its most useful lesson lives in the gap between buying technology and making it work.
A hundred thousand cloud resources can make a company remarkably modern and remarkably confused. CoreStack sells the missing discipline: a way to connect every resource, risk and dollar to someone responsible.
Concur began with floppy disks and a universal workplace nuisance. Three pivots, one near-death cloud bet and a record SAP acquisition later, it is trying to make the expense report disappear altogether.
Jen Liao and Caleb Wang couldn't find a good soup dumpling in Bellevue, so they built one you can keep in your freezer - and turned 500 test recipes into a grocery-aisle brand with Simu Liu on the payroll.