Now, the one really key thing to understand about him is he is brutally honest.

That's going to be an interesting cultural dynamic here to explore is how brutal honesty

lines up with Seattle Nice or the Seattle Freeze.

And people can't stand brutal honesty here in Seattle. It's like it's it's toxic to people.

Hi and welcome to Geekwire. I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. And I'm Geekwire co-founder John

Cook. We are coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day about what's happening around us in business, technology, and innovation. What happens here matters everywhere and every week on the show. We get to talk about some of the most interesting stories and trends in the news. John, we're back in the office. I can hear the plane overhead anyway. Great to see you.

It's great to see you too. Coming up on this week's show, tech legend Vinod Kossela,

co-founder of Sun Microsystems, one of the biggest venture capitalists in the world. He and his

family are buying our Seattle Seahawks for our record $9.6 billion. So who is this guy? We dug into hours of interviews and

talks to find out what kind of owner he'll be, his obsession with finding the right people,

his brutal honesty. And John, at the end of one of these talks, I think I have identified

the blind spot that could get him in trouble.

And I'm going to share that with you.

That's a good teaser.

And this week, I'm going to skip trivia, but I've got a new segment for you coming up at the end of the show.

We're going to ask listeners to tell us about the coolest tech artifact or

gadget or piece of technology history that you've ever found in a thrift store or a garage sale

or an antique shop.

Or my basement.

Excavating history from her own past.

It has to be the old handheld football game that had like little dashes.

Remember that? I don't think it was Calico, but it was. It must to be the old handheld football game that had like little dashes.

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