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Summary: Ryan McIntyre, along with his fellow Stanford classmates (Graham Spencer, Joe Kraus, Mark Van Haren, Ben Lutch and Martin Reinfried) was one of the …

Summary: On HBO, the show Silicon Valley is about a young kid who comes up with a billion-dollar algorithm and attempts to build a company …

Summary: Danny Sullivan is generally acknowledged as THE expert on the search industry (www.searchengineland.com). Danny first got his start coving search all the way back in …

The Truth About Al Gore Inventing The Internet As you know, often on this podcast, I run across issues or tidbits from the past that …

Summary: George Bell was the CEO of Excite.com, took that pioneering search engine public, and became the CEO of Excite@Home when he oversaw that major …

Summary: I was absolutely thrilled that Ben Slivka agreed to come on the podcast with us. Obviously, we’ve had plenty of oral histories relating to …

Summary: Halsey Minor is an absolutely legend when it comes to the online era. Along with names like Jerry Yang, Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar and others, …

This Is The’s World’s First Banner Ad: This is almost the exact size, almost the exact resolution, exact ad. Of course, it’s not *technically* the …

Summary: Younger listeners might know John Battelle as being one of the original forces behind the Web 2.0 movement, as the founder of the Web …

Summary: Another conversation with writer and journalist Chris Higgins. We start up talking about the recent sad demise of the Magazine, a project Chris was heavily …

Summary: Joe McCambley is one of the more prominent names in modern digital marketing and advertising. He’s had major roles at Digitas, at AOL in …

  Summary: Owen Thomas is one of the most prominent voices in modern web media. He is currently the editor in chief of ReadWrite.com, but …

Summary: Soon after the founding of Wired Magazine, it was decided that Wired needed a major web presence. Andrew Anker was recruited to write a business …

  Summary: We continue our survey of early web media plays with some that have lasted the test of time and some that, while not …

Summary: Rob Glaser was, and is, the founder and CEO of Real Networks. If you were around in the 90s, you’ll remember Real Audio and …

Summary: What the mid-1990’s debate about the so-called “clipper chip” can teach us about our contemporary debates concerning NSA surveillance of the Internet and the …

Summary: A new kind of episode today. I sat down with writer, blogger and former programmer Chris Higgins to do a sort of analysis episode, …

Summary: Oliver Knowlton is another one of our Pathfinder.com alumni. He’s had a wide and varied career in media, from his role as the General …

Summary: Jan Brandt is a legend in the world of marketing. She singlehandedly led the famous AOL “carpet-bombing” campaign that put millions of AOL trial …