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8 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2007
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.”
2011
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.”
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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.”
Undated
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.”
Undated
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.”
Undated
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.”
Undated
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.”
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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”
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