Microsoft’s reset, a new era for Seattle startups, and how AI is changing everything for founders

Scenes from this week’s founder open house on the deck at GeekWire HQ in Seattle, where we also recorded this week’s podcast. Thanks to Delta Airlines, Prime Team Partners, and ALLtech for sponsoring the event. (Photos by Kurt Schlosser and John Cook) On this week’s show, we’re on the GeekWire deck for our annual founder open house, where we dig into Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs — including a major Xbox shakeup — and the surprising rise of hardware companies on the GeekWire 200.