Biden's Seattle tech bundlers; Amazon's smart shelf; Where's Gabe Newell?

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week:

Just before the election, Joe Biden's campaign released a list of its top "bundlers," people who raise big donations to the campaign. Several well-known Seattle tech names were on the list. We look at who they are and why they were raising money for Biden.

Amazon released a Smart Shelf that can keep track of things like your toilet paper and then automatically reorder them when you start to run out. Another Seattle firm, Bottomless, has a similar gadget to keep you in fresh coffee beans. Cool concepts but ... do we really need these gizmos? Robo-commerce: Amazon’s auto-reordering Dash Smart Shelf goes on sale for $19.99 Built to scale: Seattle startup weighs its own success as Amazon releases similar smart shelf

Valve's Gabe Newell announced this week that he has arranged to launch a garden gnome into space. The interesting part of the story is why he's doing it and, even more interesting, is where Newell has been since last March.

With GeekWire’s Todd Bishop and John Cook. Produced by Curt Milton. Theme music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell.

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