GeekWire Podcast: Biden’s Seattle tech bundlers; Amazon’s smart shelf; Where’s Gabe Newell?

Right here’s what we’re speaking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week:

Simply earlier than the election, Joe Biden’s marketing campaign launched a listing of its high “bundlers,” individuals who elevate massive donations to the marketing campaign. A number of well-known Seattle tech names had been on the record. We have a look at who they’re and why they had been elevating cash for Biden.

Amazon launched a Good Shelf that may hold observe of issues like your rest room paper after which routinely reorder them whenever you begin to run out. One other Seattle agency, Bottomless, has the same gadget to maintain you in contemporary espresso beans. Cool ideas however … do we actually want these gizmos?

• Robo-commerce: Amazon’s auto-reordering Sprint Good Shelf goes on sale for $19.99
• Constructed to scale: Seattle startup weighs its personal success as Amazon releases related sensible shelf

Valve’s Gabe Newell introduced this week that he has organized to launch a backyard gnome into house. The fascinating a part of the story is why he’s doing it and, much more fascinating, is the place Newell has been since final March.

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With GeekWire’s Todd Bishop and John Prepare dinner. Produced by Curt Milton. Theme music by Daniel L.Okay. Caldwell.