BoardReady founder Deanna Oppenheimer has championed diversity and inclusion in the boardroom throughout her career.

Maynard Webb is becoming a man of letters after an influential 30-year run in the tech industry. He talks about his new book “Dear Founder” with TechFlash editor Cromwell Schubarth.

My normal attire is jeans and a Nav T-shirt. I won’t wear a suit for most things, but last April I stood before the California Senate Banking and Institutions Committee to testify on behalf of SB 1235, which requires truth-in-lending for small business owners. I was wearing a suit. From the moment state Sen. Steve Glazer’s office contacted me about the bill, I’ve been an unwavering supporter. That’s because SB 1235 will empower more small businesses to succeed — it’s also critical to…

As unfinished Boeing 737s piled up around the Renton factory, city officials acted fast to keep the assembly line moving. Emails show how a crisis was averted — and the price Boeing paid.

A video posted to the right-wing media site Breitbart on Wednesday showed Google executives bemoaning the election of President Donald Trump at a company meeting in 2016. The release of the leaked video is the latest volley in an expanding campaign by Republicans and allies in the media to demonstrate that Google and other Silicon Valley firms are biased against conservatives.

Hope everyone stayed dry yesterday. And, we hope everyone stays dry today. Lots of luck with that one. Here’s today’s hunkered-down version of Five Things. Showing a lot of drive Lithia has poured a boatload — a carload? a truckload? nah, “boatload” still works — into a San Francisco e-commerce company. The $54 million deal (Lithia will become the majority shareholder) will team the Medford group with Shift, which provides digital services as well as a concierge offering that lets users see…