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Microsoft President Brad Smith on AI, global turmoil, and key issues facing the tech giant at 50

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4.4116 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A conversation with Microsoft President Brad Smith, on stage at GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 event this week at Town Hall Seattle, discussing the company’s anniversary and what’s next for the industry and the world.

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0:00.0

This Geekwire podcast is brought to you by BECU.

0:03.7

Stay tuned to the break as Brian Westbrook interviews BECU's Stacey Black for today's

0:09.2

money hack about the benefits of micro-savings as part of a larger saving strategy.

0:14.1

For more money hacks, check out geekwire.com slash BECU.

0:27.5

We had to watch this settlement fall apart, which was, I found extraordinarily disappointing.

0:28.8

Little did we know that it would take another five years to get to that point again.

0:34.4

Part of what it took, they put all those really challenging things behind us oftentimes

0:40.3

was to fail gracefully with people so you could put the pieces back together again.

0:48.3

My conversations with Bill would usually start by him telling me that I was about to destroy the company.

0:55.5

And then he would be supportive.

1:04.9

Welcome to Geekwire. I'm Todd Bishop.

1:07.8

Coming up on the show, my conversation with Microsoft President Brad Smith, on

1:12.4

stage at Geekwires Microsoft at 50 event this week at Town Hall, Seattle, discussing the company's

1:18.8

milestone anniversary and what's next for the industry and the world. First, some quick notes and

1:24.9

updates. If you listened to last week's show about Redfin's acquisition by rocket companies,

1:30.7

you may remember the conversation about Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman's knack for delivering colorful quotes and off-the-wall zingers on the company's earnings calls.

1:41.3

Well, that led to a brainstorm in the Geekwire office about compiling a recap of

1:45.9

Glenn Kelman's greatest quips. And of course, as with many things these days, I got to thinking about

1:51.6

how I could use AI to my advantage in doing that. So I uploaded several years of Redfin's earnings

1:59.7

transcripts to Google's notebook L.M.

2:02.6

And I asked it to find the most colorful, fun, and entertaining quotes.

2:07.6

With some additional prompts and curation, I was able to use the AI to quickly come up with

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