Microsoft’s startup story: A new look, with insights for today
This special edition of the GeekWire Podcast is the first in a four-episode series that we’ll be publishing in the months ahead as part of our year-long Microsoft @ 50 project, recognizing the company’s 50th anniversary in April 2025.
On this episode, we’ll take a fresh look at Microsoft’s startu…
Will Trump’s win make the rocky marriage between big tech and big blue cities even worse?
America’s bluest big cities are in a tense, co-dependent relationship with the tech giants that power their economies and anchor their prosperity. It didn’t start out that way. When tech giants first decided, about 20 years ago, to decamp from their cloistered suburban enclaves to embed themselves …
Josh O'Kane
My guest on this episode is Josh O’Kane. Josh is a reporter at the Globe and Mail whose first book, Nowhere With You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, The Emergency and Thrush Hermit was published by ECW Press and was a Canadian bestseller. Josh’s most recent book, Sideways: The City Google…
🤑Silicon Valley & Washington: A History of Power, Wealth, and Selective Memory
🧠 Big Tech was built by government—and branded as rebellion.
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a fantastic event at the Munk School’s Innovation Policy Lab: “U.S. Politics and Big Tech Power: Past, Present, and Future.”
The conversation (led by Margaret O’Mara and Tom Kemeny) unpacked the …
The Broligarchy Pt 2: Is this Techno-Fascism?
The ”broligarchy” didn’t come together in a vacuum — this combination of extreme wealth, right wing leanings, and an anti-establishment point of view has been brewing for decades. There are lots of names for this ideology coming up in the news: techno-fascism, techno-feudalism, tech oligarchy, cyb…
557. Beyond The Myth of Silicon Valley’s Origins feat. Margaret O’Mara
You know what they say — Silicon Valley wasn’t built in a day, nor was it built by just a small group of tech gurus. In fact, the origin story of the Valley is a complex story involving government, industry, and academia.
Margaret O’Mara is a history professor at the University of Washington. Her l…
The Origins of Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley wasn’t supposed to happen.
A stretch of California orchard land somehow became the place that built the modern world: chips, PCs, the internet, the smartphone, and now AI. But the real story isn’t the garage myth. It’s a series of contradictions hiding in plain sight. So what actual…
Two Cities, One Industry: Big Tech, Power and Politics in Seattle and San Francisco (live)
[This episode is a live taping of a panel discussion at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle on September 29, done in conjunction with the GeekWire podcast].
For this BCB episode David and Sandeep moderate an all-star panel about how the rise of Big Tech has transformed not only the economies, but…
The Blue Flame Thinkers of The Prof G Pod
Today, we’re recapping some of the best insights from the Prof G Pod’s Conversations in 2022. Episodes in order of appearance: Super Fast Delivery – with Ralf Wenzel (CEO of JOKR). The Making of Silicon Valley – with Margaret O’Mara (Professor at Washington University). The Streaming Wars – wi…
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