This week on the GeekWire podcast: SpaceX experiences its first quarter as a public firm, and Elon Musk says Starlink might ship a majority of the world’s web inside a decade, leveraging manufacturing services in Redmond. Musk additionally explains the corporate’s knowledge middle ambitions, calling terrestrial infrastructure a trivial drawback subsequent to reusable rockets.
Plus: we convey two Washington tech universe posters into the studio, 17 years aside. The 2009 unique turns up gems together with Boeing’s unlikely connection to Classmates.com, the Nineteen Nineties forerunner to Fb. It additionally brings again recollections of Teledesic, the Craig McCaw enterprise backed by Invoice Gates that attempted to beam web from area a long time earlier than Starlink.
Lastly, the GeekWire Trivia Problem returns with a well timed query about Google’s origins.
Associated tales and hyperlinks
SpaceX’s first earnings name as a public firm
Mapping Washington’s tech universe
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Audio edited and produced by Curt Milton.
