Elon takes the stand, Big Tech drops big numbers, and a small VC gets in on a billion-dollar deal
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week on the show: Todd reports from inside the Oakland federal courthouse where Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft, with jury selection revealing just how hard it is to find anyone neutral about Musk these days.
Meanwhile, Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their partnership the same morning the trial began — and less than 24 hours later, OpenAI's models landed on Amazon's cloud.
Then, Microsoft and Amazon both dropped blockbuster earnings, with Azure up 40%, AWS posting its fastest growth in 15 quarters, and the two companies combining for nearly $400 billion in capital spending this year alone.
We also discuss a wild Semafor story about a serial entrepreneur who handed his entire life over to an AI agent that now emails people as him, sets up meetings without his knowledge, and even ordered him a computer.
Plus, John tells the story of how Seattle's Flying Fish Partners — a VC firm with less than $250 million under management — hustled its way into a $1.1 billion seed round alongside Sequoia, Google, and Nvidia.
And we tackle the quickly debunked rumor that Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook might buy the Seahawks. And finally, the return of the GeekWire Trivia Challenge.
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| 0:00.0 | This show is brought to you by Microsoft. Light Rail is now connecting Seattle in the east side, |
| 0:06.1 | crossing Lake Washington on a floating bridge. It's a milestone decades in the making, |
| 0:11.0 | and one the business community helped build. Microsoft donated land, raised money, and invested $400 |
| 0:17.0 | million in the infrastructure that made it possible. Why? Because you can't have healthy |
| 0:22.6 | businesses without a healthy community, and you can't have a healthy community without healthy |
| 0:27.5 | businesses. We're all in this together. Microsoft. |
| 0:35.9 | I didn't really appreciate that you edited my headline. |
| 0:40.9 | Now, why, why didn't you go with my London calling? |
| 0:45.1 | It was too long. |
| 0:47.2 | It was too long. |
| 0:48.2 | It was on five lines. |
| 0:49.9 | I know. |
| 0:50.5 | It was five lines. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.5 | I changed it in the newsletter to London investing. |
| 1:13.4 | I know. You should have, in the newsletter, you should have gone back to London call. But it's not a good proper pun. We would look way cooler. It's not a long, it's not a proper pun unless you put a twist on it. So that's my philosophy on headlines. But at any rate, I apologize for, you know, sullying the artistry that is your prose. |
| 1:15.4 | Thanks for your help in editing. |
| 1:17.3 | Next time, don't mess with my headline. |
| 1:28.4 | Hi, and welcome to Geekwire. |
| 1:30.2 | I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 1:32.3 | And I'm Geekwire co-founder John Cook. |
| 1:40.5 | We are coming to you from, well, California and Seattle, except the inverse this time, because I'm in California, and this time you're in the office. |
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