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 …
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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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January 12, 2015 Analysis Episode 3 – Amazon and Ecommerce With Christina Warren
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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 …
What Was The First Item Ever Ordered On Amazon?
John Wainwright Was Amazon’s First Ever Customer Amazon.com was actually founded all the way back in the summer of 1994. But unlike other dotcom-era startups …
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, …