Rob Malda:
In the early days, I thought of us as an open source project. And it took a couple of years for me to realize, no, I’m actually building like a news platform. …
Barry Appelman:
You know, people were always social, there were chat rooms and message boards. But this really accelerated the speed of human interaction in all venues. And on computers without buddy lists and …
Robbie Allen:
They would bring in all of these speakers during lunch to give talks, and so I got to hear all sorts of just fascinating entrepreneurs come in and give their story. But …
Bruce Judson:
A lot of people think about it, “Was it an experiment in Portals?” And, I guess it was an experiment, in some sense, to see how people read things, what content interested …
Lane Merrifield:
Most people’s framework for social networking comes from whatever their first experience was, Facebook or Instagram. That is a social network, and anything that doesn’t look like that must not be a …
Stefanie Syman:
When I was coming out of college, one, it was a horrible recession. ’91 was bad, and I graduated in ’90, so ’91 was terrible. Two, the options seemed to be four, …
Andrew Weinreich:
Since the beginning of time, or since the beginning of community interactions, people will say, who do I know that knows, hey blank. That’s essentially how you would find a doctor or …
Paul Mockapetris:
I discovered that MIT ran these summer classes for high school students and this computer programming one seemed interesting. We used to go over to the computer at the MIT Aero and …
Unless you’re an Internet history buff, you’ve probably never heard of NetGravity. However, NetGravity is, in some ways, one of the most important startups in Internet history. It was the first Internet advertising company. …
You might think using computers to find dates is a new thing, but that’s actually not true. Way back in 1965, an entrepreneur named Jeff Tarr used an IBM mainframe to build a computer …