Summary: One of the big trends of recent years in the tech space has been the rise of delivery startups like Instacart and Postmates and …

Summary: Martin Nisenholtz is a digital media pioneer. He founded perhaps the first digital marketing group at Olgilvy and Mather all the way back in …

Listen: Evan Kirstel is a 20 year veteran of the wireless, broadband, cloud and social space. He is also absolutely the number one person to …

Summary: Chris Higgins is back! In this very fun episode we talk about Windows 95, command line computing, who is the Microsoft of tech today …

Summary: Terry Jones was the founder and CEO of Travelocity. Perhaps the primary pioneer in the online travel space, Terry explains the unique challenges Travelocity …

Summary: Part 2 of eBay’s founding story. How, why and when eBay became the undisputed king of the online auction space. Listen: Listen Right Here …

Summary: Bruce Spector is another early web entrepreneur whose company would be acquired during the dotcom era. In this case, the company was WebCal and the …

Summary: There was a time, early on in the web era, where things were very much wide open. An entrepreneur could survey the scene and …

Summary: Glenn Fleishman is back to talk more about Amazon’s founding mythologies, the recent controversies surrounding Amazon’s work culture, and the effect the web revolution …

Summary: Most people agree that Yahoo the king of the dot-com-era search sites on the strength of its zany, friendly, ubiquitous brand. The woman responsible for …

Summary: How did we get from a place where people were completely skeptical of living their personal lives online to the “share everything” society we …

Summary: Steve Goldberg was the first hire for Microsoft’s Advertising division. He was present at the launch of such projects as MSNBC, Slate, Expedia and MSN, the portal. …

Summary: Avram Miller was the co-founder of Intel Capital, and during the 90s, racked up some of the greatest venture fund successes of all time, …

Summary: A conversation with Justin Frankel, creator of the Winamp application, which was arguably the software package responsible for popularizing the MP3. Listen: Listen Right …

Twenty years ago today, this email made the rounds among the dozens of engineers and researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Germany: Date: …

Summary: Owen Thomas is back on the show for another analysis episode, helping us establish the context for the dot-com era. You can listen to his previous …

Summary: Get ready for one of the most fascinating entrepreneurial stories we’ve covered thus far on the show. Chris Cooper was the founder of Quote.com, which, …

Remember this? So, three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls; a revolutionary mobile phone; and a breakthrough Internet communications device. An iPod, a phone, …

Summary: Today we’re going to go a bit backwards in our timeline, back to some of the issues we covered in our Chapter 5 episodes. …

Summary: So far in our project, we’ve mostly spoken to people who were involved in startups that went public in the dot com era. But …