From Microsoft to Modernist Cuisine: Nathan Myhrvold on Tech, AI, and Innovation
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🗓️ 12 April 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we're featuring highlights from a live interview with Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures and former chief technology officer at Microsoft. Myhrvold worked at Microsoft from 1986 to 2000, where he laid the groundwork for Microsoft Research, recruited top computer scientists, and played a key role in shaping the company’s technology strategy.
Since leaving Microsoft, he has worked across fields including energy, science, physics, paleontology, photography, and high-tech cuisine.
In this conversation, recorded at Town Hall Seattle as part of GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 event, Myhrvold shares his thoughts on the rise of AI, his longtime collaboration with Bill Gates, the future of energy, the secrets of Microsoft’s success, and what’s next in his Modernist Cuisine book series.
Edited by Curt Milton; With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop.
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| 0:20.7 | None of us felt personally threatened by Soron. |
| 0:24.3 | The Knight King and his army of the undead, those weren't really going to get us either. |
| 0:29.9 | And so when people conjure up these stories about AI overlords destroying all of us, it's very |
| 0:35.2 | similar to that. |
| 0:36.1 | It's a story you can get very excited about. |
| 0:38.8 | You can say you're getting frightened about, but we all know we're going to go home and there's |
| 0:42.5 | no way I overlord outside that's going to get us. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to Geekwire. I'm Todd Bishop. This week we're featuring highlights from my recent live |
| 0:56.0 | interview with Nathan Mirvald, CEO of Intellectual Ventures and the former chief technology officer at Microsoft. |
| 1:03.1 | Since leaving Microsoft, he has worked across fields including energy, science, physics, paleontology, |
| 1:10.1 | photography, and innovativeative Cuisine. |
| 1:12.7 | In this conversation, recorded at Town Hall, Seattle, as part of Geekwire's Microsoft at 50 event, |
| 1:19.2 | Mirvold shares his thoughts on the rise of AI, his longtime collaboration with Bill Gates, |
| 1:24.6 | the future of energy, the secrets of Microsoft's success, and |
| 1:29.3 | what's next in his Modernist Cuisine book series? |
| 1:32.9 | Nathan, you were at Microsoft in a really pivotal era for the company from 1986 to 2000. |
| 1:39.3 | And so you're, I think, in a unique position to answer the question. |
| 1:43.3 | What is the significance of this company, |
| 1:46.6 | Microsoft, in modern business history? |
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