
Elon Musk's Starlink swagger, SpaceX vs. the cloud giants, and Seattle's tech universe revisited
GeekWire
Published: Aug 08, 2026, 11:57 PM GMT+9
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This week on the GeekWire podcast: SpaceX reports its first quarter as a public company, and Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver a majority of the world’s internet within a decade, leveraging production facilities in Redmond. Musk also explains the company’s data center ambitions, calling terrestrial infrastructure a trivial problem next to reusable rockets. Plus: we bring two Washington tech universe posters into the studio, 17 years apart. The 2009 original turns up gems including Boeing’s unlikely connection to Classmates.com, the 1990s forerunner to Facebook. It also brings back memories of Teledesic, the Craig McCaw venture backed by Bill Gates that tried to beam internet from space decades before Starlink. Finally, the GeekWire Trivia Challenge returns with a timely question about Google’s origins.
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