Jonathan Sposato

Jonathan Sposato (born March 17, 1967)[1] is an American businessman. He is chairman and co-founder of Geekwire, an American technology news website, the CEO of the PicMonkey, and investor in companies including Pokitdok, EveryMove and Vizify.[2] He founded, grew and sold two companies (Picnik and Phatbits) to Google.[3][4][5]

Early life and education

Sposato graduated from Whitman College in 1989 and serves on the Whitman College Board of Trustees.[6][7]

Career

Sposato is also the author of Better Together: 8 Ways Working with Women Leads to Extraordinary Products and Profit.[8][9]

Personal life

The University of Washington recognized Sposato's efforts around gender equality in 2017 with its "Man of Integrity Award."[10] And Seattle Business Magazine profiled him as one of Seattle's most influential people of 2015.[11]

Sposato is the co-chair of United Way of King County's fundraising campaign to address homelessness in Seattle.[12][13]

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gollark: Rust's excellent metaprogramming capabilities and tagged unions mean I can basically just write the entire skynet protocol as a bunch of enums and have it compile efficient (de)serialization cod.
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gollark: The Rust project I mostly recently worked on would, I feel, be apioformically irritating in C. Maybe not C++. I didn't try.

References
  1. Sposato, Jonathan, 1967- information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
  2. "About Jonathan Sposato". Entrepreneur.com. Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  3. "GeekWire VIP Party". Northwest Asian Weekly. Assunta Ng. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  4. Cook, John. "Jonathan Sposato leaves Google as Picnik winds down". GeekWire. GeekWire. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  5. "Seattle online hitmaker Jonathan Sposato shares his next big thing". MyNorthwest. Bonneville International. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  6. Foster, Michelle. "Tech icon Jonathan Sposato '89 urges inclusive workplace". Whitman College. Whtiman College. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  7. Soper, Taylor. "Whitman College raises $8M from Microsoft, other donors to launch computer science program". GeekWire. GeekWire. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  8. Sposato, Jonathan (December 11, 2017). Better Together: 8 Ways Working with Women Leads to Extraordinary Products and Profit (1st ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc. p. 208. ISBN 9781119452188.
  9. Pak, Samantha. "Book Review: Better Together - 8 Ways Working with Women Lead to Extraordinary Products and Profits". Assunta Ng. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  10. Foster, Michelle. "Tech icon Jonathan Sposato '89 urges inclusive workplace". Whitman College. Whitman College.
  11. Wogan, Lisa. "Seattle's Most Influential People of 2015". Seattle Magazine. Tiger Oak. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  12. Sposato, Jonathan. "The tents will not go away until the state helps fund services". The Seattle Times. Frank A. Blethan. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  13. Matthews, Todd. "How Some Visionary Seattleites are Helping the Homeless". Seattle Magazine. Tiger Oaks Media. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
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