It’s 1992, and in the basement of the chemistry building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, two computer science students are working on a new web browser. Up to this point, browsing has made up less than one percent of all internet traffic, but Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina are about to change all that. Fueled by a combination of Pepperidge ... Show More
Aug 2019
Business Battles | Monster vs Beats by Dre | 1
<p>With all the hype around portable and smart speakers, it’s easy to forget that they didn’t always exist. In fact, it took one fateful meeting with Monster Cables and Interscope Records to really kick the industry off. In this one-episode Business Battle, we explore the time wh ... Show More
26m 16s
Nov 2021
Fighting for MySpace | Millions of Emails | 1
<p>Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson had no intention of starting a tech revolution. But when their website, MySpace, took off in 2003, it changed social media and the internet forever. As MySpace grows into one of the biggest sites in the world and attracts media giants like Rupert ... Show More
37m 35s
Aug 2017
Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
With $12,000 and a mascot named Snoo, two former college roommates designed a web site they hoped would become "the front page of the Internet." Today, despite growing pains, personal issues and persistent trolls, Reddit has over 300 million monthly users and is valued at 1.8 bil ... Show More
52m 20s
Jun 2019
198. Inventor of the Hashtag, Chris Messina
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 2.0 goodness happened and was launche ... Show More
1h 15m
Nov 2022
eComm's False Equivalency for CCPA & GDPR -- Adam Robinson // GetEmails
<p>Just a year ago Adam Robinson, Founder and CEO of GetEmails, was mulling over the news of the removal of third-party cookies. While cookies will still be around for another 2 years, Adam has found his fix! But privacy laws are still at play over what is and isn’t acceptable. T ... Show More
15m 41s
Oct 2020
Mozilla: UNFCKD the Internet
Lindsey Shepard, the Chief Marketing Officer for the Mozilla organization, which makes the Firefox browser, has some ideas for how to "un-F" the Internet. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-inf ... Show More
4m 13s