GeekWire Podcast: Expedia’s lifeline; Bill Gates on life after lockdown; Pivoting in a pandemic

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

“Image eating places that solely seat individuals at each different desk, and airplanes the place each center seat is empty.” That’s what the “semi-normal” subsequent section of the pandemic will appear to be, Invoice Gates says, providing a starkly pragmatic take that contrasts with predictions from President Trump that the financial system will come “roaring again.” However Gates additionally factors to the potential for a brand new wave of innovation the likes of which hasn’t been seen since World Conflict II.

“If there’s life, there’s journey,” says Expedia chairman Barry Diller, expressing optimism in regards to the future even because the Seattle-based on-line journey large makes a sequence of dramatic strikes to shake up its enterprise amid the financial disaster.

Talking of shaking issues up, GeekWire co-founder John Cook dinner returns to the present and provides his personal Richter Scale to assist perceive how the pandemic is stirring some corporations to greatness, and shaking others to their core.

Pivoting Throughout a Pandemic: In our remaining phase, we share chosen highlights from our members-only webinar on “Pivoting in a Pandemic,” with two skilled Seattle CEOs who’re within the thick of it proper now: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, who’s main the tech-powered actual property brokerage by way of a interval of unprecedented financial turmoil; and Tokki CEO Jane Park, the previous Julep CEO, who shortly pivoted her eco-friendly reward wrap startup Tokki to regulate to the realities of the pandemic shortly after launching earlier this yr.

We’ll be internet hosting a majority of these discussions frequently with newsmakers and leaders in enterprise, science, expertise and startups, and our members get to tune in and take part dwell. Go to geekwire.com/memberships to study extra.

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