Articles by John Cook

John Cook is the co-founder of GeekWire, a national technology news site and community.

He started GeekWire in 2011 with veteran journalist Todd Bishop, building on more than two decades of combined experience covering the Pacific Northwest technology community.

As co-founder and publisher, John oversees business, event and community operations, bringing the GeekWire community together in creative, informative and fun ways.

A sought-after voice on startups, venture capital and the changing economics of the tech industry, John started covering the technology beat in the Seattle area in the 1990s as a tech reporter for The Eastside Journal before moving to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Puget Sound Business Journal.

A native of Wooster, Ohio, he started his journalism career in high school, with a part-time job compiling obituary and election information for The Akron Beacon Journal, where his mom was a correspondent. He graduated from Gettysburg College with a degree in history, earning Phi Beta Kappa recognition and Academic All-American honors in soccer.

John’s interests include hiking, bicycling, microbreweries and watching English Premier League and Seattle Sounders FC soccer. He lives in Seattle with his wife Holly and son James. You can follow John on Twitter — @johnhcook — or catch him at one of GeekWire's upcoming events.

Latest from John Cook

Billionaire Jeff Bezos: ‘Success is not villainy’

Speaking from Blue Origin’s factory floor in Florida, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offered an unapologetic defense of free enterprise, declaring that “success is not villainy.” For Seattle and the broader tech landscape, his comments offer a window into the foundational mindset that built Amazon—and arrive as Washington voters prepare to decide the fate of high-earner tax policy this November. Read More

Satellite radar tech startup Kapta Space raises $24M from Bill Gates-backed fund and defense investors

Seattle space startup Kapta Space landed $24M in Series A funding to scale production of its low-cost metamaterial radar payloads for defense satellites. Founded by former Echodyne engineers Milton Perque and Adam Bily, the spinout uses proprietary software-defined radar to track dynamic targets across air, sea, and land—adding fuel to the Pacific Northwest’s booming commercial space ecosystem. Read More

Kanu AI emerges from stealth with $11.7M to turn employee workflows into custom software

Founded by Y Combinator alum and former machine learning engineer Karan Grover, Seattle-based Kanu AI has raised $11.7 million to solve a persistent enterprise problem: valuable operational knowledge getting trapped in employees’ heads and spreadsheets. Led by Trilogy Equity Partners, the new funding will help scale Kanu’s platform, which automatically converts day-to-day employee workflows into permanent, production-grade software deployed directly within a company’s cloud. Read More

Seattle’s AI weed wars: One startup maps them, another zaps them

Two Seattle-area startups are taking different approaches to an age-old farming problem: using AI to find weeds — and then eliminate them. TerraClear is mapping individual weeds across entire fields, while Carbon Robotics is using AI-powered lasers to zap them. Now, increasingly sophisticated AI models are giving both approaches a bigger opportunity: teaching machines to understand the farm itself. Read More