Pittsburgh’s prize: Not winning Amazon’s HQ2

Amazon’s warehouse problem: In its quarterly earnings report Thursday, Amazon admitted that it built more warehouse space than it needed in response to the challenges of the pandemic, outpacing consumer sales. The overbuilding resulted in an extra $2 billion in costs, one of several factors that caused its results to fall well short of Wall Street’s expectations. Amazon shares are down more than 13% as of Friday morning.

Meet the STEM Educator of the Year honorees: Innovation is alive and well in STEM classrooms across Washington state, inspiring students to seek opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math. At the GeekWire Awards on May 12, we’re celebrating the accomplishments of three educators who join us on the GeekWire Podcast.

Meta’s Seattle-area engineering lead leaving: Rajeev Rajan, who spent nearly five years as vice president and head of engineering in the region, is joining Atlassian as CTO. Read more.

Student innovators take center stage: Undergrads pitched their startup ideas at a DubHacks Next Demo Day at the University of Washington. Check out some of the projects.

Washington, other states suing USPS over vehicles: The lawsuit alleges the Postal Service violated environmental regulations in a decision to replace up to 165,000 aging trucks primarily with gas-powered mail carriers.

Zymeworks gets purchase offer: Global investment firm All Blue Capital has offered $733 million in cash for the Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech.

Amazon adds ex-NFL star to streaming team: Former Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez joins Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit as an analyst for “Thursday Night Football” on Prime Video. Read more.