Was The World Wide Web Worm the First Web Search Engine?
Summary If you’ll remember back to the chapter episode on the early search engines and Yahoo, I said that it’s hard to pin down exactly …
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November 20, 2015 Founding CEO of MapQuest Barry Glick Discusses the History and Future of Location Tech
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November 8, 2015 How Tom Hadfield Founded Soccernet at Age 13
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November 2, 2015 How Microsoft Went Online, With Brad Silverberg
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October 26, 2015 Tim DeMello Talks Home Delivery Startups
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October 18, 2015 Martin Nisenholtz on Bringing the New York Times Online
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Chamath Palihapitiya on Facebook, AIM and WinAmp
Summary Most of you know Chamath Palihapitiya as one of the most prominent and progressive venture capitalists working today. But before forming Social Capital, Chamath …
Jason Calacanis on Silicon Alley, The Dot-Com Bubble and Web 2.0
Summary Most of you will know Jason Calacanis from his many high profile endeavors such as his podcasts (especially This Week in Startups) his Launch …
The History of Slate With Julia Turner and Jacob Weisberg
Summary I missed it (I should really be keeping a calendar of these things) but Slate.com celebrated its 20th anniversary last month. If you’ll recall, …
The Birth of Amazon’s 3rd Party Platform with John Rossman
Summary John Rossman helped transform Amazon.com’s business. After the dotcom bubble burst, Amazon delved into a new business line that allowed third parties to do …
Founder of Friendster and Nuzzel, Jonathan Abrams
Summary Jonathan Abrams was the founder of the first modern social networking site, Friendster. This is essentially the story of the birth of social media… the …
Director of the Documentary Silicon Cowboys, Jason Cohen
Summary If you’ll remember a few years ago I spoke with Rod Canion about how Compaq created the industry standard computer platform that finally supplanted …
Mike Slade on 80s Microsoft, NeXT, Starwave and Steve Jobs’ Return to Apple
Summary I originally wanted to talk to Mike Slade about Starwave, the innovative company that launched some major names onto the web, including ESPN.com, ABCNews.com, …
Douglas Colbeth, Co-Founder and CEO of Spyglass
Summary We’ve spoken a lot on this show about Netscape and the “Browser Wars,” but there’s a key angle to this story that we haven’t …
