Summary: What is generally considered the worst merger of all time, and certainly the crescendo event of the dotcom bubble era, today we take a …

Summary: David Shen was employee #17 at Yahoo, where he eventually had a hand in, not only the birth of advertising as the primary business …

Summary: Karel Baloun was the first senior software engineer hired at Facebook in 2005. This was after the Accel round of funding, when Facebook truly …

Summary Don Melton is popularly known as the father of the Safari web browser or WebKit. He’s basically a web browser legend. Not only does …

Summary The first text message (or, to be accurate, SMS message) was sent on December 3, 1992. It was sent by Neil Papworth, and it …

Summary As promised, Mike Slade is back to tell stories from the period 1998 through 2004, when he was Special Assistant to Steve Jobs. Background …

Summary A lot of people give credit to Justin Hall for being, if not the first, then spiritually, at least, the “first” blogger. Since early …

Summary For several months now, I’ve been complaining on Twitter and a bunch of other places that, for as ubiquitous as Netflix streaming has become—I …

Summary Andy Rachleff was a co-founder of Benchmark, one of the most respected venture capital firms to this very day, and one of the biggest venture …

Summary Check out The Top Entrepreneurs Podcast here! Books recommended on this episode: Storming the Magic Kingdom Walt Disney Unconventional Success Say Everything The Wikipedia …