Serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni came to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com,

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Oct 31st, 2020 34m 25s

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202. The del.icio.us Story With Joshua Schachter

1 Oct 23rd, 2020 1h

Joshua Schachter, founder of del.icio.us, is someone I’ve wanted to talk to from the very first day of this podcast. As we’ll discuss, del.icio.us was such a standard bearer of the web 2.0 era. Of user generated content. Of sharing long before

201. The History of Audible With Angelika Fuellemann

Aug 11th, 2019 25m 4s

Angelika Fuellemann is a designer who worked early on with BookSense.com, then got hired by Audible early on, so this is the early story of Audible. It’s funny… audio, streaming music, podcasts, audiobooks, it seems so obvious now, but it reall

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200. Professional Blogging Pioneer Josh Marshall

Jul 14th, 2019 1h 16m

Josh Marshall is one of the key people who brought blogging into the realm of serious, award winning and respectable journalism. The story of his blog/publication, Talking Points Memo, or TPM is the story of blogging becoming legit and serious,

199. Is Tech Making Us- Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?

Jul 1st, 2019 39m 29s

Is technology really rotting our brains, destroying our society... or is that what everyone has always worried about with every technological advance, going back to tv, or telephones, or even writing letters? The new book, Bored, Lonely, Angry,

198. Inventor of the Hashtag, Chris Messina

Jun 16th, 2019 1h 15m

Well, as we say in this episode, he’ll always be known as the inventor of the hashtag, but Chris Messina has been central to so many things in tech over the last 20 years or so. Helped Mozilla launch Firefox. Founded BarCamp where so much Web 2

197. The Internet Bookshop Story With the Tech Business History Podcast

Jun 2nd, 2019 50m 8s

I’ve said before I wish I could cover technology history beyond just North America, more… Well, Charles Miller has started a great podcast in Britain called Tech Business History. Charles used to report on the tech business as a BBC documentary

196. Google, Twitter and More With Karen Wickre

May 18th, 2019 1h 27m

Everyone knows Karen Wickre, because she’s one of those classic connectors. Once we finally got in touch, I wasn’t surprised to learn we knew about half a dozen of the same people though we had never remotely crossed paths. But Karen knows ever

195. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott

May 4th, 2019 1h 24m

Kevin Scott is the current Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. We talk about his entire career, how being an academic seemed to be his path before he transformed the ads system at Google. Then he revolutionized the entire advertising industr

194. The History of the ISP Industry With Sonic's Dane Jasper

Apr 20th, 2019 1h 25m

Today we continue my efforts to preserve the history of the ISP industry. Today it feels like the Internet is simply all around us all the time, but there are amazing entrepreneurial stories about how that crucial infrastructure was laid. Today

193. The Home Page Film With Doug Block

Apr 6th, 2019 1h

20 years ago, the acclaimed documentarian Doug Block released a landmark film, Home Page. Doug’s documentary accidentally chronicled the birth of blogging, featuring several people we’ve talked to on this very show, including Justin Hall. But t

192. Hulu's Founding and Digital Design With Dan Maccarone

Mar 23rd, 2019 1h 1m

Dan Maccarone is a digital design veteran, websites, products, strategy. He's got some amazing stories about the dotcom bubble, about the aftermath, and the rise of Web 2.0. He shares some unique design lessons but also, the story of the birth

191. Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky Part 2

Mar 10th, 2019 45m 22s

Part two of the WSJ's online adventures intersect with several other stories we've covered on here over the years.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

190. Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky

Feb 25th, 2019 45m 31s

We’ve had a couple of people come on here to discuss how the New York Times got online, but the spiritual yin to their yang is the Wall Street Journal and we haven’t done enough to explore their path to embracing the internet. It’s worth doing

189. A Legal History of the Web Era With Richard Chapo

Feb 10th, 2019 54m 38s

It’s bothered me for a while that over the 5 years or so of this podcast, we haven’t focused very much on some corners of the history. For example… the legal side? Copyright law? Intellectual property law? How much have we talked about disrupti

188. TheGlobe.com Story With Stephan Paternot Part III

Jan 26th, 2019 37m 35s

Part three of our epic conversation with Stephan Paternot. Here's what happens when you've been through the wringer. When you've been to the top of the rollercoaster and also down to the bottom. Here's how you take stock of your life, how you r

187. TheGlobe.com Story with Stephan Paternot Part II

Jan 6th, 2019 1h 4m

Ok, part 2 of the Stephan Paternot mega-episode right now. This is where we get into the meat of it, the good stuff, the whole crazy roller coaster ride of being the hottest startup of the dotcom era. And I was going to make this the last episo

186. TheGlobe.com Story with Stephan Paternot

Dec 24th, 2018 50m 19s

I said in the book, I think TheGlobe.com was the quintessential dot-com company. We spoke to one of the cofounders previously, Todd Krizelman. Todd was great, but he was time constrained and he didn’t quite get as personal about the story as I

185. Ripple's David Schwartz

Dec 10th, 2018 39m 42s

David Schwartz is the Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, the company behind the cryptocurrency XRP. What is it like to start, build and build out a crypto startup? Is it different than the web and internet startups that we’ve covered on this s

184. GV's Ken Norton

Nov 25th, 2018 1h 19m

Ken Norton is a partner at GV, Alphabets venture capital arm, but before that, he was a product manager at Google, where he led the development of products like Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Mobile Maps. But he was also early at JotSp

183. Selling the First Facebook Ads, With Matt Britton

Nov 11th, 2018 28m 35s

Matt Britton not only sold the first ads to and for Facebook, way back in 2004, he gives us a really insightful and, frankly, unbiased look at what Facebook was like as a company in its very earliest days.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com

Emergency Podcast Announcement

Nov 2nd, 2018 1m 44s

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182. Google's Matt Cutts @mattcutts

Oct 28th, 2018 1h 1m

I figure most of you should know who Matt Cutts is, but if you don't, let's just leave it at this: he's about to give you the best, most behind-the-scenes oral history of early Google we've gotten so far on this podcast. He was the head of Goog