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Todd Bishop says he and his colleague John Cook, both longtime newspaper reporters, saw the blogging revolution emerging around 2007 and 2008.
“my colleague John Cook and I were longtime newspaper reporters, and we saw the blogging revolution happening back in, I don't know, 2007, 2008.”
Todd Bishop and John Cook wrote for the daily Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which Bishop says no longer exists.
“We were writing for a daily paper in Seattle called The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which no longer exists.”
Todd Bishop and John Cook started GeekWire in 2011, and the company is based in Seattle.
“through a variety of different twists and turns, ended up starting GeekWire in 2011, and we're based in Seattle.”
GeekWire publishes a ranking of Pacific Northwest startups called the GeekWire 200.
“We have a feature called the GeekWire 200, which is a ranking of Pacific Northwest startups.”
Todd Bishop says the core metric of the GeekWire 200 startup ranking was originally employee growth.
“from the very beginning, our core metric was employee growth.”
Todd Bishop argues that a startup growing with fewer people is now probably more successful, because it burns less cash and does more with its money.
“if you're growing and succeeding with fewer people, frankly, you're probably more successful, at least in terms of reducing your cash burn and doing more with your money.”
Todd Bishop says Box CEO Aaron Levy told him that AI has expanded what the company can attempt, so Levy puts in more time and energy rather than less.
“the horizons have just been expanded so much for him, for the company. There's so much more that can be done now with AI,”
Todd Bishop says he interviewed Box CEO Aaron Levy about six months before this conversation.
“It was about six months ago that I talked with him.”
Todd Bishop recalls a Cisco guest on the Me, Myself, and AI podcast who argued that AI should not end entry-level hiring and should instead enable co-training between generations.
“the idea of not letting this be an opportunity to no longer have interns or entry-level employees, but to, in fact, look at this as a chance for almost like co-training.”
Todd Bishop interviewed a longtime Microsoft journalist on the GeekWire podcast about the latest AI innovations in Windows.
“I got a chance to talk with Ed Bot, who is a longtime journalist who's covered Microsoft, and we talked about the latest AI innovations in Windows.”
Todd Bishop says Google's Gemini, which had previously fact-checked his stories correctly from his usual prompt, began treating a story as fiction and giving feedback on it.
“it was kind of pretending that it was fiction and giving me feedback”
GeekWire covers the Allen Institute for AI, a nonprofit based in Seattle.
“we end up covering a nonprofit in Seattle called the Allen Institute for AI”
Todd Bishop says GeekWire's comment section stopped adding value about six or seven years before this conversation.
“about six or seven years ago, our comment section just went off the rails and it was no longer adding value”
Todd Bishop says GeekWire has discussed restoring reader comments through Bluesky's open protocol and might still do so.
“We've talked about bringing Blue Sky comments back in using their open protocol, and that's something we might still consider.”