10 startup lessons from Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis – LinkedIn

GeekWire GeekWire Breaking News in Technology and Business. Subscribe to our newsletter: geekwire.com/newsletters Published Apr 3, 2026 Stop trying to make people read instructions and instead focus on building hyper-intuitive products. That’s one of 10 startup lessons from Dan Lewis , the co-founder and former CEO of onetime unicorn trucking marketplace Convoy, at this week’s Seattle AI Startup Summit. Rather than relitigate what led to Convoy’s collapse, Lewis, who is now at Microsoft, touched on building culture, hiring deliberately, using data and more. Read more. Ground control to Microsoft : Astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis 2 mission encountered a surprisingly terrestrial tech struggle on their journey to the moon when their Microsoft Outlook apps malfunctioned, requiring a remote fix from IT support in Houston. Read more. The first stunning views of the home planet are coming back from astronauts floating above Earth. Read more on Alan Boyle ’s Cosmic Log. Elsewhere in space, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has discovered more than 11,000 new asteroids in just a few months of testing, a feat powered by advanced data-crunching software developed at the University of Washington . Read more. Seattle-based Speedy’s E-Bike Rescue is like AAA for e-bikes. The startup, founded by
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