Seattle has historically been a big-company town, with successive eras dominated and defined by certain sectors and companies, O’Mara said — Boeing in the 1950s and 1960s, Microsoft in the 1990s and 2000s, and Microsoft and Amazon in the past decade.

Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2023/microsoft-and-amazon-job-cuts-mark-new-phase-for-tech-industry-after-decade-of-massive-growth/