Robbie Cape, the Seattle tech entrepreneur who has dabbled in healthcare and fried rooster lately, has one other new enterprise.
In a put up on LinkedIn on Monday, Cape mentioned his nine-month seek for a brand new job led someplace he didn’t count on — and he’s beginning an organization.
“We’re in stealth for now — the thought and the story behind it is going to come,” Cape wrote. “However proper now, we’re imagining. We’re shaping the imaginative and prescient, constructing the workforce, defining the tradition. The slate is clear. The sky is open. And we’re having an absolute blast.”
Cape mentioned the brand new enterprise integrated in March, and some weeks in the past he welcomed CTO T Van Doren and chief product officer Matt Witcher as co-founders. Cape mentioned Van Doren was worker No. 1 and Witcher was worker No. 8 at 98point6, the telehealth startup that Cape co-founded and ran as CEO for six years.
Cape beforehand spent 11 years at Microsoft and was the co-founder and CEO of Cozi, an app for managing household occasions, actions and schedules. After being compelled out of 98point6, Cape helped launch the sustainable rooster restaurant Mt. Pleasure in 2022. The small chain has areas in Seattle’s South Lake Union and Capitol Hill neighborhoods.
Cape left Mt. Pleasure in Could 2025, in line with his LinkedIn. And in his put up on Monday, he mentioned he’d been trying to find a job till final month. The method — by which he was searching for any measurement firm, stage or title — took longer than he imagined it might as he linked with 200 individuals throughout practically 2,000 interactions.
“It was arduous in methods I didn’t count on,” Cape wrote. “However it gave me one thing I didn’t count on both — actual empathy for a course of most individuals dread however everybody ultimately has to undergo.”
GeekWire reached out to Cape for particulars on his new firm, and we’ll replace after we hear again.
