The grunge-to-gigabyte gear shift
The urban campus experiment
The cost of a boom
Taxes, tensions, and new frontiers
YOUR GOAL
Master of How Amazon rewrote the Seattle story
sonia Moving from Beacon Hill to South Lake Union transformed empty parking lots into a multi-building campus of high-rise
sonia Giant glass geodesic spheres stand near old brick buildings and towering construction cranes.
sonia Drag tech jobs and housing to discover how Amazon's boom triggered Seattle's housing crisis.
Bezos's first desk: Jeff Bezos built Amazon's very first office desks out of cheap wooden doors to save money.
A period of rapid economic growth and investment driven by the technology sector. Amazon's late-1990s expansion catalyzed Seattle's swift transition from a gritty music capital into a digital metropolis.
In what year did Jeff Bezos officially found Amazon in a Bellevue, Washington garage?
Where was Amazon's headquarters located in Seattle before its 2010 move to South Lake Union?
Which company, founded near Seattle in 1975, first established the region's reputation as a software hub?
What was the primary industry in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood in the early 2000s?
Which company was the largest employer in Washington state before Amazon surpassed it in 2020?
What musical genre is Seattle famous for pioneering in the late 1980s and early 1990s?