Best GeekWire Podcasts (2025)

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Amazon’s New Frontiers: Robotaxis, Ultrafast Deliveries, and AI Teammates 46:00

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Amazon is experimenting again. This week, we dig into our scoop on Amazon Now, the company's new ultrafast delivery service. Plus, we recap the GeekWire team's ride in a Zoox robotaxi on the Las Vegas Strip during AWS re:Invent. And in our featured interview, from the show floor, AWS Senior Vice President Colleen Aubrey discusses Amazon's push into…

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Creating More, Not Less, With AI: GeekWire’s Todd Bishop 27:40

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AI isn’t taking jobs — it’s changing what jobs are. On today’s episode, GeekWire’s Todd Bishop joins host Sam Ransbotham to dive into how artificial intelligence is reshaping work, learning, and creativity — not by replacing humans but by amplifying what we can do. From classrooms where students use AI on exams to newsrooms rethinking how news stor…

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Science, Innovation, and Economic Growth: OpenAI’s Ronnie Chatterji 30:24

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On this episode, OpenAI’s chief economist Ronnie Chatterji describes how artificial intelligence is reshaping both the economy and scientific innovation. Ronnie discusses the dual economic impacts of AI — the near-term boost from infrastructure investments like chips and data centers, and the longer-term productivity gains as AI tools integrate int…

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Finding signal in the AI noise, with ‘Me, Myself and AI’ host Sam Ransbotham 29:10

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What's the real value in AI tools — and what separates those who use them well from those who don't? Sam Ransbotham, professor of business analytics at Boston College and host of the "Me, Myself and AI" podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review, compares notes with GeekWire Podcast host Todd Bishop in a two-part collaboration between the shows. On t…

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Bezos is back in startup mode, Amazon gets weird again, and the great old-car tech retrofit debate 32:44

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This week: Jeff Bezos is back in startup mode (sort of) with Project Prometheus — a $6.2 billion AI-for-the-physical-world venture that instantly became one of the most talked-about new companies in tech. We dig into what his return to the CEO title really means, why the company’s location is still a mystery, and how this echoes the era when Bezos …

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An inside view of the AI boom, with Read AI's David Shim 36:21

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This week: A glimpse of the AI frontier in workplace productivity through the eyes of David Shim — serial entrepreneur, Read AI co-founder and CEO, former Foursquare leader, and this year’s GeekWire Awards CEO of the Year. Shim spoke with GeekWire co-founder John Cook at a recent dinner event hosted in partnership with Accenture, in conjunction wit…

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Seattle’s history of hardware heartbreak: Big raises, high hopes, hard landings 24:54

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Seattle’s consumer-hardware ambitions are once again colliding with economic reality. The struggles of Glowforge and Rad Power Bikes echo a long regional history of big raises, high hopes, and hard landings — shaped by the pandemic, VC, and the unforgiving nature of building real products. GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook recorded thi…

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From Rabbit Holes to Recommendations: Reddit’s Vishal Gupta 25:09

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Vishal Gupta, engineering manager, machine learning at Reddit, joins the podcast to explain how the social media community platform uses artificial intelligence to improve user experience and ad relevance. Much of the advertising work relies on increasingly sophisticated recommender systems that have evolved from simple collaborative filtering to d…

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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on failure, reinvention, and his second act at Amazon 39:57

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What’s it like to pitch your dream on Shark Tank, get rejected on national TV in front of eight million people — and then turn that failure into a company Amazon later buys for more than a billion dollars. Ring founder Jamie Siminoff did just that. A serial inventor and entrepreneur, Siminoff joins us to talk about his new book, Ding Dong: How Ring…

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Seattle’s tech paradox: Amazon's layoffs and the AI boom — or is it a bubble? 44:33

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Why is Amazon laying off 14,000 people during a massive AI boom? Todd and John analyze the Seattle tech paradox, digging into Andy Jassy's 'startup' reasoning and debating whether the AI frenzy is a bubble. Then, they take on the Cascadia high-speed rail: a necessary connector or a misguided project? Related headlines from the week Amazon layoffs A…

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Personalization and Innovation in a Regulated Industry: Experian’s Kathleen Peters 31:40

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Kathleen Peters brings a background with digital communications companies and tech startups to her role as Experian’s chief innovation officer. On this episode, Kathleen shares a bit about Experian’s Innovation Lab, outlining some of its projects and explaining how the recent democratization of generative AI tools has made even more innovative thin…

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The Great Rewiring: How the pandemic set the stage for AI — and what's next 35:40

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From empty offices in 2020 to AI colleagues in 2025, the way we work has been completely rewired over the past five years. Our guest this week studies these shifts closely along with her colleagues at Microsoft. Colette Stallbaumer is the co-founder of Microsoft WorkLab, general manager of Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the author of the new book, Work…

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The next PC platform shift? Ed Bott on Microsoft's big Windows AI bet 39:17

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Veteran technology journalist Ed Bott has "seen things," after more than 30 years of covering Microsoft and the PC industry, and he recognizes a pattern in the company's latest AI features for Windows. It's part of a high-stakes effort to avoid missing the next big platform shift — attempting to avoid what happened to the company in the mobile revo…

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Never Fight a Megatrend: Cisco’s Jeetu Patel 32:57

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Cisco is well known for its data, networking, security, and collaboration products. On today’s episode, Cisco’s president and chief product officer, Jeetu Patel, joins Sam for a discussion about artificial intelligence, a “megatrend” Jeetu sees as perhaps more significant than the development of the internet or the automobile because of its ability…

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Vibe-coding a new reality: Chris Pirillo on the rise of AI-powered apps, features, and founders 45:58

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Chris Pirillo, the longtime tech enthusiast and entrepreneur, joins the show this week to discuss how AI software development tools are opening up new possibilities for everyday users, as illustrated by his own experience going from commentator to creator, building nearly 100 apps and games. He’s launching a free, in-person event series called CTRL…

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The Agentic Entrepreneur: How the next wave of AI is changing the startup playbook 50:20

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: How artificial intelligence is changing the way companies are created, built, and operated. We're on location at Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle with investor and entrepreneur T.A. McCann, a managing director at the startup studio and venture capital firm. He explains how AI agents are automating complex functions,…

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Protection, Provenance, and Prompts: YouTube’s Angela Nakalembe 27:46

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A chemical engineer by training, Angela Nakalembe worked in the sciences and management consulting before landing at YouTube as the company’s engineering program manager for trust and safety. At YouTube, Angela explains, AI has become a first line of defense against harmful content. The technology not only accelerates content moderation tasks but m…

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A $100k wall for talent: Tech leader and author Shirish Nadkarni on the H-1B fee and the impact of immigrants 33:38

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The U.S. tech and startup community was stunned by an executive order last week imposing a $100,000 fee for employers seeking new H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers, a program heavily used by the technology industry. This move brings a longstanding debate back to the forefront: are skilled immigrants taking American jobs, or are they a vital en…

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When AI becomes the creative director: Amazon VP Jay Richman on the future of media and ads 34:05

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: How artificial intelligence is reshaping media and advertising, and what it says about the future of the creative process. Our guest is Jay Richman, an Amazon vice president of product and technology who leads the technology team developing AI tools used by sellers and brands to create and deploy ads across Amazon…

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Challenging the Average With Open-Source AI: Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf 34:24

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Thomas Wolf is the cofounder and chief science officer of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which provides access to thousands of pretrained AI models that can be downloaded and run locally. With over 10 million users, getting started on the site can be a daunting task. Thomas explains how the company aims to improve its accessibility through d…

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Using AI to Upgrade Your Personal OS: Insights from Executive Coach Mark Briggs 43:42

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This week: Executive coach and AI strategist Mark Briggs explains why your "personal operating system" needs an upgrade, and how to use AI to get more time back in your day. He shares practical tips for turning scattered notes into a powerful knowledge base and discusses how AI can act as a collaborator to fight procrastination and provide instant …

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OpenAI's big Seattle deal; Steve Ballmer under NBA scrutiny; the irony in Google's antitrust case 32:02

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his NBA team, the Clippers, face scrutiny over an alleged salary-cap dodge tied to star Kawhi Leonard. We unpack the report and Ballmer’s emphatic denial, while reflecting on his history in tech and sports. Also: OpenAI's surprise $1.1 billion acquisition of Seattle startup S…

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The Idea Man's Last Big Idea: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in his own words 50:22

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In light of his estate's launch of the new $3.1 billion Fund for Science and Technology, we revisit a classic 2011 interview with the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to explore the "Idea Man" mindset that continues to shape his legacy. The conversation reveals the personal motivations behind his "big bet" philanthropy, his candid thoughts on h…

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Booms, Busts, and Seattle in the AI Era, with Jeff Shulman of the UW Foster School 37:42

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What does Seattle gain — and lose — in times of dramatic change? University of Washington Foster School of Business marketing professor Jeff Shulman has spent years studying that question, as host of the Seattle Growth Podcast, director of the Product Management Center, and a civic voice on issues ranging from housing affordability to the campaign …

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Building an AI-first company: What these two business leaders learned from top experts in the field 48:47

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Our guests this week: Adam Brotman and Andy Sack, co-authors of the book AI First: The Playbook for a Future-Proof Business and Brand. Brotman was Starbucks’ chief digital officer and later co-CEO of J.Crew. Sack is a founder, investor, and longtime advisor to tech leaders. Together, they run Forum3, a company that helps brands rethink loyalty and …

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Coding is dead, computer science is not: UW’s Ed Lazowska on AI, retirement, and why he’s not done yet 46:54

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Longtime University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska — newly retired at 75 after nearly a half-century on the faculty — joins us to discuss the evolution of computer science, how AI is changing what and how students learn, why specialization is rising, the role of universities in Seattle’s tech economy, and what he plans to tack…

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Is this 'peak AI'? Microsoft, Amazon, and a pivotal week for Seattle tech 38:57

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft soars past Wall Street expectations, briefly hitting a $4 trillion valuation, while Amazon faces sharper scrutiny over its AI strategy. Todd Bishop and John Cook break down the contrasting earnings results, analyst reactions, and what it all means for the future of AI — and Seattle's place in it. Plus: i…

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From Microsoft to Qualtrics: Brad Anderson on AI's business and personal impact 49:13

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Our guest this week is Brad Anderson — a tech engineering and product leader who spent more than 17 years at Microsoft and is now approaching 5 years at Qualtrics, the experience management technology company, where he’s president of products, user experience, engineering, and security. I’ve known Brad for a while, in fact I’ve been on two of his s…

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How Companies Are Really Using AI, with AWS VP Francessca Vasquez 36:10

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How are companies really using AI? And is it truly working? AWS Vice President Francessca Vasquez joins the GeekWire Podcast to talk about what companies are actually doing with AI today, and what's holding them back. We discuss real-world deployments, lessons from AWS customers across industries, and the challenges and opportunities in scaling gen…

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Amazon’s New Frontiers: Robotaxis, Ultrafast Deliveries, and AI Teammates 46:00

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Creating More, Not Less, With AI: GeekWire’s Todd Bishop 27:40

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Science, Innovation, and Economic Growth: OpenAI’s Ronnie Chatterji 30:24

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Finding signal in the AI noise, with ‘Me, Myself and AI’ host Sam Ransbotham 29:10

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Bezos is back in startup mode, Amazon gets weird again, and the great old-car tech retrofit debate 32:44

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An inside view of the AI boom, with Read AI's David Shim 36:21

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Seattle’s history of hardware heartbreak: Big raises, high hopes, hard landings 24:54

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From Rabbit Holes to Recommendations: Reddit’s Vishal Gupta 25:09

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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on failure, reinvention, and his second act at Amazon 39:57

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Seattle’s tech paradox: Amazon's layoffs and the AI boom — or is it a bubble? 44:33

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Personalization and Innovation in a Regulated Industry: Experian’s Kathleen Peters 31:40

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The Great Rewiring: How the pandemic set the stage for AI — and what's next 35:40

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The next PC platform shift? Ed Bott on Microsoft's big Windows AI bet 39:17

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Never Fight a Megatrend: Cisco’s Jeetu Patel 32:57

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Vibe-coding a new reality: Chris Pirillo on the rise of AI-powered apps, features, and founders 45:58

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The Agentic Entrepreneur: How the next wave of AI is changing the startup playbook 50:20

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Protection, Provenance, and Prompts: YouTube’s Angela Nakalembe 27:46

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A $100k wall for talent: Tech leader and author Shirish Nadkarni on the H-1B fee and the impact of immigrants 33:38

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When AI becomes the creative director: Amazon VP Jay Richman on the future of media and ads 34:05

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Challenging the Average With Open-Source AI: Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf 34:24

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Using AI to Upgrade Your Personal OS: Insights from Executive Coach Mark Briggs 43:42

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OpenAI's big Seattle deal; Steve Ballmer under NBA scrutiny; the irony in Google's antitrust case 32:02

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The Idea Man's Last Big Idea: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in his own words 50:22

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Booms, Busts, and Seattle in the AI Era, with Jeff Shulman of the UW Foster School 37:42

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Building an AI-first company: What these two business leaders learned from top experts in the field 48:47

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Coding is dead, computer science is not: UW’s Ed Lazowska on AI, retirement, and why he’s not done yet 46:54

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Is this 'peak AI'? Microsoft, Amazon, and a pivotal week for Seattle tech 38:57

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From Microsoft to Qualtrics: Brad Anderson on AI's business and personal impact 49:13

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How Companies Are Really Using AI, with AWS VP Francessca Vasquez 36:10