Porch continues to grow

Kate Harloe

Kate Harloe Jul 12, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Porch continues to grow</h1>
                <h2><p>One of Seattle’s newest start-ups, Porch, just hired a new CTO – former Amazon director Jay Allen – and continues to grow at an impressive rate. In about a year, Porch has grown “10-fold” to more than 200 people and, according to Geekwire, expanded its “headquarters by more than 50 percent.</p></h2>
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            <p>One of Seattle’s newest start-ups, <a href="http://porch.com/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Porch</a>, just hired a new CTO – former Amazon director Jay Allen – and continues to grow at an impressive rate. In about a year, Porch has grown “10-fold” to more than 200 people and, according to <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2014/porch-tops-200-people-one-year-hires-new-cto-amazon/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Geekwire</a>, expanded its “headquarters by more than 50 percent.”Since their launch, Porch has amassed a large amount of data about home improvement projects – offering their services for free to homeowners and “charging pros” for market insights. Their momentum doesn’t look like it’ll be slowing down anytime soon. Which isn’t a problem for the company, since they aim to build “a world-class engineering environment that can stand up and lead the way not only in Seattle but beyond.” — K.H.</p>
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One of Seattle’s newest start-ups, Porch, just hired a new CTO – former Amazon director Jay Allen – and continues to grow at an impressive rate. In about a year, Porch has grown “10-fold” to more than 200 people and, according to Geekwire, expanded its “headquarters by more than 50 percent.”Since their launch, Porch has amassed a large amount of data about home improvement projects – offering their services for free to homeowners and “charging pros” for market insights. Their momentum doesn’t look like it’ll be slowing down anytime soon. Which isn’t a problem for the company, since they aim to build “a world-class engineering environment that can stand up and lead the way not only in Seattle but beyond.” — K.H.

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By Kate Harloe

Kate Harloe is Crosscut's Community Manager &amp; Editorial Assistant. After graduating from Hamilton College, Kate completed two seasons of work for the Southwest Conservation Corps before moving