Narendra Rocherolle @narendra of Webshots and 30 Boxes
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 …
Most Recent Podcasts
Steve Goldberg of Microsoft and the IAB
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. …
The Development of Consumer Broadband with Intel’s Avram Miller
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, …
Justin Frankel, Creator of Winamp
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 …
On the 20th Birthday of the MP3, An Interview With The “Father” of the MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg
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: …
Owen Thomas Returns!
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 …
Chris Cooper, Founder of Quote.com
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, …
The Forgotten Story of the Original iPhone Released in 1998
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, …
Steve Yelvington Discusses Newspapers and the Early Web
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …