Early eBay Executive (and California Gubernatorial Candidate?) Steve Westly
Summary: If you are a Californian, then you might know Steve Westly’s name very well. After all, in the mid 2000s, Westly was elected Controller …
Posts in category Interview
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February 9, 2015 Chapter 7, Supplemental 3 – Catalog Manager Glenn Fleishman Discusses Amazon’s Early Days
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February 1, 2015 Amazon’s Technical Co-Founder and Employee #1, Shel Kaphan
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January 26, 2015 Chapter 4, Supplemental 9 – Lycos Founder and CEO Bob Davis
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January 19, 2015 Chapter 7, Supplemental 1 – Amazon Director, Customer Service Strategy, Jane Slade
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December 15, 2014 Chapter 4, Supplemental 8 – Excite Co-Founder Ryan McIntyre
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Early Amazon Engineer and Co-Developer of the Recommendation Engine, Greg Linden
Summary: As you know, we’ve been trying to cover from every angle, the innovations that ecommerce sites in general, and Amazon.com specifically, brought to the …
Chapter 8, Supplemental 1 – Robert Levitan of iVillage and Flooz
Summary: Robert Levitan has been involved in many pioneering tech companies. The two that I wanted to focus on were iVillage, one of the early …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 10 – Infoseek Founder (and inventor of the optical mouse) Steve Kirsch
Summary: Steve Kirsch is one of the most fascinating entrepreneurs we’ve been lucky enough to speak to on this show. Going back to the 1980s, …
W. Joseph Campbell and the Watershed Year that Was 1995
Summary: W. Joseph Campbell is a Professor in the School of Communication at American University. He is the author of six nonfiction books, including Getting …
Chapter 7, Supplemental 5 – CDNow CEO Mike Krupit
Summary: Michael Krupit first joined CDNow as the Chief Technology officer. He soon took over COO duties, and eventually rose to become CEO of the entire …
Chapter 7, Supplemental 4 – Gary Kremen, Founder of Match.com
Summary: Gary Kremen is another early internet legend. Kremen was one of the first people to recognize the opportunity that the Internet presented in terms …
Chapter 7, Supplemental 3 – Catalog Manager Glenn Fleishman Discusses Amazon’s Early Days
Summary: You may know Glenn Fleishman from a bunch of things. He has written for Wired, Fortune, Popular Science, The New York Times, and PCWorld, …
Amazon’s Technical Co-Founder and Employee #1, Shel Kaphan
Summary: Shel Kaphan was the very first person hired by Jeff Bezos to launch Amazon.com. A lot of people consider Shel to be a co-founder …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 9 – Lycos Founder and CEO Bob Davis
Summary: Bob Davis was not only the founder of the search engine/web portal known as Lycos, he was also the CEO, first employee, and for …