Author: Kat

A Sense of Community

I think that sense of community and togetherness is one of the best things I took away from my time there. Everyone was so friendly with each other and it was really great.

Work Hard, Play Hard

While working at Speakeasy, I also had the privilege of performing in a play on the Speakeasy Cafe Backroom stage.

Hardware Hoochie and System Salvationist

I was hired on as a technical support representative, but I was then quickly transitioned into building our servers, and setting up workstations desks while working facilities with Tyler Apgar.

Ellis Island

I started off on the sales team. I wasn’t the best sales person on the team, however, I was good at process and lots of the sales guys weren’t.

Loved the Feel

I worked in Kirkland and walked by the cafe on my way to the bus every day. I don’t think I ever went in, but I definitely loved the feel of it.

Press: Soul Providers

Entrepreneur profiles several start-ups, focused on more than just making a buck.

From Russia, with Love

In late November, several of Speakeasy’s web servers were compromised by a hacker based in Russia. After he’d found an exploit, he hijacked the root account on these servers, and then sent a message out to anyone on the server, letting them know what he’d done.

From Arcade to Tech

I was working at an arcade in Seattle when a regular (bnelson) called to me from a mezzanine above and dropped his Speakeasy business card to me.