Lane Powell

In 1986, Paul G. Allen founded Vulcan with Jody Patton, who was hired to manage his personal and charitable endeavors. Through its operating companies, Vulcan builds museums and makes original motion pictures. It launches businesses and creates new industries. Vulcan develops technology, virtual learning programs and communities it lives and works in by improving the way people live, learn, do business, and experience the world. Vulcan conducts and oversees scientific initiative and technological research intended to improve the way people live. Vulcan developed SpaceShipOne, the first privately built spacecraft to enter suborbital space. Vulcan is headquartered in Seattle.

Market Leader provides real estate professionals with innovative marketing and technology solutions that enable them to grow and manage their business. Founded in 1999 by a second-generation real estate agent, Market Leader provides real estate agents, agent teams and brokerage companies with subscription software and advertising products that enable them to generate a steady stream of prospects, as well as the tools and training they need to convert these prospects into clients. The company also provides consumers with free access to the information and tools they need throughout the home buying and selling process through its national consumer real estate sites. These websites enable Market Leader to provide its customers with access to millions of future home buyers and sellers while providing these consumers with free access to the information they seek throughout the home buying and selling process.