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And since has led, he argues, to a loss of 30,000 jobs in Seattle.

The largest donor for Democrats in Washington state, billionaire Nick Hanauer, just said, as we told you yesterday in an op ed in GeekWire, that every rich person he's friends with is leaving.

And he called it a catastrophe.

Downtown Seattle has a 37 percent office vacancy rate.

So the article goes on, John Scholes, he talks about, oh, I'm encouraged about what we're doing here.

Let's take a look at this one.

This is GeekWire.

Seattle Economic Study finds strong tech assets, a risky concentration, and a tax, Katie Wilson's tax, that penalizes hiring.

Just kind of the way it goes.

Also, the other thing worth noting, while it's not, like, massively revealing, Mary Jo Foley, writing for GeekWire, did an interview with Pavan, who is now leading both Windows and Surface.

He is the infamous person who said, hey, Windows is for agents or whatever as an agentic OS, and that tweet went, whoo.

All the wrong directions.

I don't know.

But yeah, so you can go read that.

It's over in GeekWire.

It's a good read.

That's what we're doing.

And sometimes those blowtorches catch the tiny homes on fire, and they all go up, just like the tent communities, right? Here's Geekwire.

So Geekwire, King, and Publicola, they had major stories in this.

No, but everybody else is crickets.

Yeah, they closed down.

Vinod.

Hi, and welcome to GeekWire.

I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop.

And I'm GeekWire co-founder John Cook.

We are coming to you from Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology, and innovation.

What happens here matters everywhere, and every week on this show, we talk about some of the most interesting and important stories and trends in the news.

And then in the final segment, the Seahawks sale to the Kosla family officially closes, ending the Paul Allen era with two familiar Seattle tech names surfacing in the ownership group.

And I'm going to have a related trivia question, John, that I think you're going to know the answer to, but maybe folks out there won't.

And we're doing a live event with Jonathan, but also with University of Washington's Margaret O'Meara, who's written the definitive history of Silicon Valley.

And with John Cook from GeekWire, the publication here, to talk about Seattle and San Francisco and how tech changed.

has transformed the two cities and what the similarities and differences are.

It should be a super fun, interesting conversation that will turn into a live episode.

So congratulations to the Graze team on making that happen.

Our friends at GeekWire wrote something up, our friends at Portland Business Journal wrote something up.

And I can honestly say a friend at TechCrunch wrote it up because Sarah Perez wrote it up.

And I used to work with Sarah back in the day at ReadWriteWeb.

everybody's everybody's super excited about that 250 million dollar raise and that by the way comes on top of the other money that they've pulled in.

I think GeekWire is misrepresenting this a little because they're saying a total of $450 million.

I actually think it's a little higher than that from some other private sources, but it didn't hit $500 million, but it's a little higher than this.

uh what i love is that they're getting in 100 000 square foot facility yeah

Its software connects the systems the companies use to run their supply chains, including Meta, Fanatics, and Kimberly-Clark.

Clark, in an interview with GeekWire, said the move is about talent and family, not taxes.

It's interesting.

I mean, that's a different approach, right? But the bottom line is they're moving away and they're going to Texas.

You get your startup going here in Seattle because you got all the people that can kind of get it going, and then you look around at the map and you go, ah, it doesn't make any sense.

But we'll leave our software engineering department here and do the headquarters in Texas because it's so much more centrally located, right? The magazine DCEO in Dallas, which first reported the news of Augur's relocation this week, noted the company did not seek state or local incentives as part of the move.

Clark confirmed in GeekWire interview Tuesday that taxes weren't a factor, noting that he wouldn't even quantify what the tax advantages would be.

There's a lot I like about the way the state of Texas manages and works with business.

Drone delivery is currently available in seven states.

GeekWire says Amazon's been working on the service for thirteen years.

Technology and regulations took far longer than the company expected.

It zips items through the air to drop them in backyards and driveways.