Vantage Voices

01Rachael Barclay

Jesse flips the script. The GM who watched the room go dark, on why she is building the next one.

02Jesse Rhodes Jr.

The cultural architect on community, humanity, and taking the door off.

03Roger Starkweather

The first openly gay chair of the Columbia Tower Club, on visibility, community, and connecting the dots.

04Erica Carraway

The brand developer behind Key Wellness on building an ecosystem, partnership as give-first, and the lesson she wants her girls to inherit.

05Katrina Romatowski

Katrina Romatowski on co-homeownership, betting on yourself, and why she stopped looking for the door and started blowing up the wall.

06April Vian

Neurodivergence at work, and the skills the world assumes we all figure out.

07Charles Finkelstein

Forty years in tech, a stack of patents, and a nonprofit built so the AI boom does not cost us the planet.

08Amanda Armstrong Sava

An introvert who plays an extrovert for a living, 25 years of remodeling, and the room in your house everyone gets wrong.

09William Herbert

Twenty-one years a soldier, three years at King County, and a founding member who joined Vantage the afternoon he found it, because he is looking for his people.

10Sarah O'Sell

Sarah O'Sell proved to GE that customers wanted sustainability, then stepped away to rest. Now she calls herself a startup gardener and runs a climate tech incubator that just announced a data center program with Microsoft and E8.

11Bob O'Brien

What kills a company is almost never the thing the founder thinks it is. Bob O'Brien has watched it happen from the inside of every generation of computing.