There was plenty to digest during Day 1 of the fifth annual GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Tuesday. Top CEOs, leading venture capitalists, young entrepreneurs, tech journalists, and interesting inventors wowed the crowd with their insight and humor about everything from architecture to travel to cancer to pro football.
We’ve rounded up some of the best of what we heard and tweeted. And we look forward to getting an earful again on Day 2.
The View from the Press Box
“Thank you for having me on this GeekWire edition of between two bald guys.” — Nick Wingfield, New York Times.
“I don’t talk to my PC, I know some people do.” — Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet. “I swear at my PC.” — Jay Greene, Wall Street Journal.
“I think 25 percent of the tweets on Twitter are from Spencer (Rascoff of Zillow).” — Nick Wingfield, NYT.
“To me, it’s essential." @maryjofoley wants someone — anyone — to buy Twitter. #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
NYT's @nickwingfield says LinkedIn deal "is really the test" to see if @satyanadella has instrumented true change at Microsoft. #gwsummit
— John Cook (@johnhcook) October 4, 2016
Millennials: Growing Up Tech
"My whole company is powered by these brilliant, hard working millennials." CEO Richard Wang @codingdojo1 #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Not sold on Spectacles, but @gilbert says, "Keep an eye on @Snapchat, their ambition is much larger than we thought." #GWSummit pic.twitter.com/6xacFtJvyE
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
"We’re not heavily influenced by failures and successes because we want to open our own paths." M3 Biotechnology CEO @leenkawas #gwsummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Fireside chat: Peggy Johnson, Microsoft
"I was so curious about the moves [ @SatyaNadella ] was making … His vision was really fresh and new." @PeggyJ#GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
"There’s been a real shift in the enthusiasm about partnering with @Microsoft and I can feel that when I’m out there." @PeggyJ #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
“I believe we’re going to look back and say, ‘can you imagine when we used to drive cars ourselves?'” — Microsoft VP of biz dev @PeggyJ
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Fireside Chat: Dara Khosrowshahi, Expedia
“Amazon is a company that you have to take very, very seriously…if they get into travel that won’t be a happy day for us” Expedia CEO @dkhos
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Echoing our millennial panel, @Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says "Our culture values experiences more than stuff.” #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
“If one candidate wins, and I think you can guess whom, I think it would be negative for the world and negative for travel.”—Expedia CEO
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Scott Wyatt: How Technology is Reshaping Cities
“We’re doubling the building stock in the world today in about a 30-year span,” says @NBBJDesign’s Scott Wyatt. He calls it “exhilarating.”
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Amazon is "building a neighborhood that blurs the boundary between living and working and playing in a city" — Scott Wyatt, of @NBBJDesign.
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
“It's never been a more exciting time to be in the business of designing cities.” Fascinating stuff from @NBBJDesign’s Scott Wyatt #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
The Power of Grit: Ricardo Lockette, Seattle Seahawks
.@RicardoLockette on where he gets his drive: "I think it's when your passion or purpose is greater than the work." #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
"GeekWire is something that is going to change the world, and I'm pleased to be a part of it." @RicardoLockette making us blush at #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
"I'm blocking for @DangeRussWilson so he can get back and hug @ciara" is how @RicardoLockette explains @Seahawks family. #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
"I dare not waste another day." @RicardoLockette silences #GWSummit with story of near-fatal hit in Dallas and what he was thinking.
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Fireside Chat: Jeff Jordan, Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz partner @jeff_jordan calls Amazon Echo and Echo Dot “frickin’ brilliant.” #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Jeff Jordan on talk of a bubble: Up until recently there were some “eye-popping valuations.” #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Any fans of HBO’s Silicon Valley out there? Andreessen Horowitz partner @jeff_jordan says, “It’s on the mark.” #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Fireside Chat: Hans Bishop, Juno Therapeutics
“All of us are developing cancer every day,” says @JunoThera CEO Hans Bishop. Yikes! #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
“Cancer is a really difficult disease. It’s beaten many attempts to cure it” @HansBishop1 explains why he's hesitant to say “cure” #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
. @HansBishop1 says biotech and high tech are "in a pitch battle because the tech industry is very forcefully…trying to minimize patents."
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
“We have a no a–holes policy in our company,” says @JunoThera CEO Hans Bishop. #GWSummit
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
Inventions We Love
.@ChefChrisYoung says @ChefSteps device just got approved for an Alexa skill. "Alexa, tell Joule to make my steak medium-rare." #GWSummit pic.twitter.com/u2NBlz6t33
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
.@CALomasney says "like mother nature built materials layer by layer, we are building metals layer by layer." #GWSummit pic.twitter.com/HOLOQnmjZ7
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
.@grabmike on @PackageGuard: "It's a bathroom scale with WiFi and an alarm on it. I'll be honest. It's not rocket science." #GWSummit pic.twitter.com/2lHrCKFOvM
— GeekWire (@geekwire) October 4, 2016
