15 years of the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon, Microsoft, and the transformation of Seattle tech
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4.4 • 116 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Fifteen years ago, Steve Jobs and Apple had just introduced the first iPad, Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft had been left for dead, and nerdy online bookseller Jeff Bezos was still getting Amazon settled into its South Lake Union HQ. That’s when we started this podcast.
This week, we’re going back to 2010, revisiting clips from the earliest days of the show. We remember what was happening with Amazon, Microsoft, and Seattle’s startup scene, and try to wrap our heads around all the things that have changed since then.
With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook.
Audio editing by Curt Milton.
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| 0:00.0 | This Geekwire podcast is brought to you by BECU. Stay tuned to the break as Brian Westbrook |
| 0:06.0 | interviews BECU's Stacey Black for today's money hack about strategies for financial planning |
| 0:12.3 | when your income is irregular. For more money hacks, check out geekwire.com slash BECU. |
| 0:19.6 | We love to tell the story, sort of the WKRP, office space story of how we ended up not at Cairo anymore. |
| 0:27.0 | Well, I think we realized we weren't getting paid anymore. |
| 0:30.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.6 | I can't remember. |
| 0:31.8 | I know that that, but I can't remember the details, but all of a sudden we weren't getting any more money from them and we stopped working. |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome to Geekwire. I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. And I'm Geekwire co-founder John Cook. |
| 0:47.8 | We are coming to you from Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology, and innovation. |
| 0:54.9 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show. We get to talk about some of the most |
| 0:59.0 | interesting and important stories and trends in the news. In fact, John, we have been doing this show, |
| 1:05.6 | not always under this name, but we have been doing this show for 15 years. |
| 1:12.7 | That is sobering. |
| 1:14.7 | It's crazy. |
| 1:16.2 | February 2010 is when we started this show. |
| 1:20.3 | And so I thought it might be fun to look back and then compare that to where we are today |
| 1:25.6 | in a variety of ways, |
| 1:28.6 | listen to a few clips, |
| 1:35.7 | and get a sense for just how much the tech industry has evolved over that time frame. |
| 1:37.7 | So that's what I wanted to do on this week's show. |
| 1:38.4 | Can't wait. |
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