Journalist Maggie Mahar Discusses the Dot-Com “Bubble”
Summary: Maggie Mahar is an award-winning journalist who has written for Money magazine, Institutional Investor, the New York Times, Bloomberg, and in the 1990s, covered the …
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March 9, 2015 W. Joseph Campbell and the Watershed Year that Was 1995
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March 2, 2015 Chapter 7, Supplemental 5 – CDNow CEO Mike Krupit
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February 22, 2015 Chapter 7, Supplemental 4 – Gary Kremen, Founder of Match.com
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February 16, 2015 Chapter 7, Part 1 – E-Commerce And the Birth of Amazon.com
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February 9, 2015 Chapter 7, Supplemental 3 – Catalog Manager Glenn Fleishman Discusses Amazon’s Early Days
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Chapter 7, Part 3 – The Founding of eBay
Summary: Or, to be more strictly accurate, this episode covers the founding of AuctionWeb, the site that would become eBay. How Pierre Omidyar founded a …
The “Book Club” Episode
Summary: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet, by Katie Hafner The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created …
David Bohnett, Founder of Geocities
Summary: We continue our survey of the pioneering social/community sites by sitting down with David Bohnett, who, along with John Rezner, founded Geocities. David recounts how …
TheGlobe Co-Founder Todd Krizelman
Summary: One of the biggest names of the dot-com era was TheGlobe.com. It had one of the most successful and storied IPO’s of its day, …
iVillage Co-Founder Nancy Evans
Summary: Nancy Evans and Candice Carpenter founded iVillage in the mid 1990s. iVillage was one of the first community-focused sites on the early web, and grew …
Chapter 7, Part 2 – Amazon’s Dominance of eCommerce
Summary: It’s part two of our Amazon founding story. How did Amazon come to completely dominate e-commerce? How did Jeff Bezos’ “Get Big Fast” strategy …
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 …
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 …