SpaceX IPO filing reveals Starlink's impact, Bezos sounds off on CNBC, and Gemini owes John a beer
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week on a supersized Memorial Day Weekend edition of the GeekWire Podcast: A massive IPO filing from SpaceX includes new details about Elon Musk's Starlink business and its satellite factory in Redmond. Jeff Bezos talks about wealth, inequality and eventually tech in an hour-long CNBC appearance. John goes to World Cup ticketing hell and turns to ChatGPT and Gemini when FIFA's support falls short. And a special Sam Altman/Seattle startup edition of GeekWire Trivia.
With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook.
Related Links:
- SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other tidbits from its IPO filing
- From the archives: SpaceX founder Elon Musk reveals new $10B 'Space Internet' plan at private Seattle event
- CNBC: Jeff Bezos blasts New York City school spending: It doesn’t get better outcomes
- Jeff Bezos describes his $38B startup Prometheus for the first time: ‘Nothing to do with robotics’
- Expedia at 30, the inside story: Online travel giant navigates its third tech disruption
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- The view from Bellevue: Seattle has the foundation for future growth — if it can fix its taxes
- Former Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a new gig — startup CEO
- Why this Seattle-area startup is putting its name on the front of an English Premier League soccer team
- CEO of Paul Allen’s $3.1B science and tech fund steps down less than a year after launch
- Award-winning Business Journal photographer Anthony Bolante dies at 58
- 'Soma' Somasegar, 1966-2026: Microsoft and Madrona leader was a champion of developers and startups
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| 0:00.0 | I did the Expedia story. |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:03.7 | I just want to put it... |
| 0:05.3 | Tech Alliance. |
| 0:06.0 | I went to the Tech Alliance. |
| 0:07.5 | See, I think this would be interesting. |
| 0:09.2 | Let's just walk through your week, everything you did. |
| 0:11.7 | Who the hell wants to know about my week? |
| 0:14.2 | Well, it also kind of touches about on the stories you did. |
| 0:17.9 | Honestly, of all the stories this week, it's probably not the biggest talker, but the fact that the head of Paul Allen's biggest surviving foundation left |
| 0:28.3 | after nine months, I mean, this is the foundation that's going to get the money from the |
| 0:33.1 | Seahawks and the Blazers. I mean, they started with $3.1 billion. |
| 0:39.5 | They're going to end up with like $15, $17, $20 billion in the end. |
| 0:45.3 | And the person who was going to run it left after nine months, they're funding AI2. |
| 0:52.0 | They're funding the Allen Institute potentially too. |
| 1:13.4 | I mean, that's like the most important story of the week. Yeah, I don't know if people care. Yeah, exactly. I really don't. The Bruce Harrell story is a bit of a talker. It is. I think we could riff on that. This could be a three-hour. But no one's listening anyway because it's Memorial Day weekend. So let's just talk for as long as we want. |
| 1:11.5 | This is a good way to set it up actually. I've been recording this. Yes. I'm recording right now. I wasn't even buying the mic. But this would be a good way to start this. It's just say, no one's going to be listening because everyone's barbecuing their hot dogs and grilling their hamburgs. Did you say hamburgs? Like hamburgs. |
| 1:31.5 | Like hamburgs. |
| 1:28.3 | Did you say hamburgs? |
| 1:30.0 | Like Ambergs, like the city in Germany. |
| 1:33.6 | Anyway, this will be the longest podcast ever. |
| 1:35.9 | All right, so I'll read the setup that I was going to read. |
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