President Joe Biden brought together top executives from the nation's biggest technology, financial services and energy companies this week to address the growing challenge of cybersecurity, speaking to tech leaders including Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

"The federal government can't meet this challenge alone," Biden said in his public remarks to open the meeting. "I've invited you all here today because you have the power and the capacity and the responsibility, I believe, to raise the bar on cybersecurity. And so, ultimately, we've got a lot of work to do."

So what happened next? And did any real solutions emerge? Our guest on this episode of the GeekWire Podcast was in the closed-door meeting. Seattle-area investor and entrepreneur Hadi Partovi, CEO of computer science education nonprofit Code.org, shares details and key takeaways on this week's show.

In the third segment, Partovi reflects on his own childhood in Iran, as a 6-year-old during the 1979 revolution, later immigrating to the U.S. with his family, and finding success as a computer scientist and entrepreneur along with his twin brother, Ali, who joined him in founding Code.org. 

Read his full thread on that topic and see our earlier coverage.

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President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2021/white-house-cybersecurity-summit-include-amazons-andy-jassy-microsofts-satya-nadella/">brought together top executives</a> from the nation's biggest technology, financial services and energy companies this week to <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2021/report-microsoft-quadruple-cybersecurity-investments-spending-20b-five-years/">address the growing challenge of cybersecurity</a>, speaking to tech leaders including Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
"The federal government can't meet this challenge alone," Biden said in his public remarks to open the meeting. "I've invited you all here today because you have the power and the capacity and the responsibility, I believe, to raise the bar on cybersecurity. And so, ultimately, we've got a lot of work to do."
So what happened next? And did any real solutions emerge? Our guest on this episode of the GeekWire Podcast was in the closed-door meeting. Seattle-area investor and entrepreneur Hadi Partovi, CEO of computer science education nonprofit <a href="https://code.org/">Code.org</a>, shares details and key takeaways on this week's show.
In the third segment, Partovi reflects on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/business/hadi-partovi-code-org-corner-office.html">his own childhood in Iran</a>, as a 6-year-old during the 1979 revolution, later immigrating to the U.S. with his family, and <a href="https://code.org/about/leadership/hadi_partovi">finding success as a computer scientist and entrepreneur</a> along with his twin brother, Ali, who joined him in founding Code.org.&nbsp;
Read <a href="https://twitter.com/hadip/status/1429550049806086144">his full thread on that topic</a> and <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amid-afghan-evacuations-seattle-area-investor-recounts-nightmare-irans-revolution-war/">see our earlier coverage</a>.
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