Facebook’s First Senior Software Engineer, Karel Baloun
Summary: Karel Baloun was the first senior software engineer hired at Facebook in 2005. This was after the Accel round of funding, when Facebook truly …
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May 8, 2016 Tom Rielly, Founder of PlanetOut
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May 1, 2016 Suck Again! Joey Anuff And Carl Steadman Return!
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April 25, 2016 Rafat Ali of PaidContent and Skift
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April 10, 2016 Analysis Episode 5, The History And Future of Auto Tech with Mike Dushane
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March 21, 2016 Matt Kursh on Pen Computing, Sidewalk and MSN
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Ryan Mac on Soundcloud
Summary: Just as last week’s episode posted, another great piece about SoundCloud was posted on Buzzfeed by the great Ryan Mac. So, in a rare …
Christina Warren on SoundCloud
Summary: Our friend Christina Warren is back for another analysis episode. Christina recently posted a tweetstorm about SoundCloud, and its prospects for the future. So …
Don Melton on Apple, Safari, WebKit and Netscape
Summary Don Melton is popularly known as the father of the Safari web browser or WebKit. He’s basically a web browser legend. Not only does …
The First Text Message With Neil Papworth
Summary The first text message (or, to be accurate, SMS message) was sent on December 3, 1992. It was sent by Neil Papworth, and it …
Mike Slade Returns! Steve Jobs and Apple in the 2000s
Summary As promised, Mike Slade is back to tell stories from the period 1998 through 2004, when he was Special Assistant to Steve Jobs. Background …
Brian Merchant, Author of The One Device
Summary Finally! A detailed history of the development of the iPhone inside Apple. But not only that, an extensive history of all the technologies that …
The “First” Blogger, Justin Hall
Summary A lot of people give credit to Justin Hall for being, if not the first, then spiritually, at least, the “first” blogger. Since early …
Neil Hunt on Netflix and the Story of Netflix Streaming
Summary For several months now, I’ve been complaining on Twitter and a bunch of other places that, for as ubiquitous as Netflix streaming has become—I …
Andy Rachleff, Co-founder of Benchmark and Wealthfront
Summary Andy Rachleff was a co-founder of Benchmark, one of the most respected venture capital firms to this very day, and one of the biggest venture …