Elon Musk's Starlink swagger, SpaceX vs. the cloud giants, and Seattle's tech universe revisited

This GeekWire podcast recap centers on SpaceX’s first quarter as a public company and Elon Musk’s bullish comments on Starlink, which he says could deliver a majority of the world’s internet within a decade. Musk also contrasted SpaceX’s space-based ambitions with terrestrial rivals, describing data centers as a relatively simple problem versus reusable rockets. The piece is largely commentary and ecosystem context, revisiting historic Washington tech maps and references to early satellite internet efforts such as Teledesic. Market relevance comes from the public-company status of SpaceX and the implied long-term growth story for Starlink, which could influence sentiment around satellite internet, space infrastructure, and related tech investments.