Seattle

"Greg’s girlfriend worked at Apple and had a few encounters with her boss, Steve. Perhaps feeling as if Steve’s gaze was saying “Why are you guys here?” they eventually began visiting the store on Fridays when Steve was less likely to appear. Greg at one point said, “I’m having more business trips to Seattle.” Amazon has a subsidiary in Silicon Valley responsible for research and development. They were making the Kindle there, but he often also visited the Seattle area where the headquarters are located."

"At the end of 1979 came the turning point in Kjell Inge Røkke's life. The two Ålesund shipowners, Erik Breivik and John K. Sjong, bought a decommissioned supply boat from the Gulf of Mexico and transformed it into the state-of-the-art trawler "Arctic Trawler." They wanted to try their hand at cod fishing along the Pacific coast northward from Seattle. It was quite a daring venture, but the reason the shipowners took the chance was that they had no competitors. In Seattle, there were no major trawlers to speak of, so the two sunnmørings bet that they could make a catch. The problem, however, was that it was almost impossible to find proper professionals in Seattle. Sjong was big on crab fishing, and his people could not be used. Therefore, they agreed that Breivik should try to scrape together the best he could find in Ålesund. There, there were plenty of youths who would eagerly jump at this opportunity, they rightly assumed."