Nostalgia For Dot-Com Era Valuations?
Was in the library today doing research for upcoming episodes. Was going through the entire print run of Industry Standard magazine, page by page. Stumbled …
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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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March 1, 2015 On the 20th Anniversary – The History of Yahoo’s Founding
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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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Ted Barnett, Founder of When.com
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 …
Is There A Tool That Triggers A Phone Alert Via RSS?
I’m waiting feverishly for the latest Ask the Maester column to go live on Grantland. Sooo… so many questions about that last episode and the …
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 …
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 …