Netscape

includes Netscape Navigator, Netscape Browser

7 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Apr 15, 2016 by Jonathan Abrams · said 86 times in 46 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (20), Marty Cagan (5), Frank Quattrone (5), Jonathan Abrams (4), Javier Soltero (4), Hans Tung (4), Danny Rimer (4), Miles Grimshaw (2)

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Apr 15, 2016 negative
Opinion
Abrams: Netscape Missed Webmail And Messaging Due To Lack Of Focus
“Netscape had a lot of opportunities it didn't actually successfully achieve, because if you think about so many of the things that came after, you think, why didn't, you know, why wasn't Netscape the company that did web mail and instant messaging and just so …”
Jonathan Abrams Apr 15, 2016 ▶ 4:27 20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
Dec 3, 2018
Assertion Supported
Danny Rimer Maintained Buy Ratings on All 1990s Internet IPOs
“So I co-authored one of the first reports, if not shamefully the first report on the internet, And then was an internet analyst for the first wave of the internet, so from 94 to 99, and I had all buys on all my universe of stocks, so we took Amazon public, and…”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 5:39 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Sep 20, 2021 positive
Opinion
Hans Tung: Today's crypto movement mirrors the 1993 Netscape internet boom
“Seeing some of my classmates end up going to Yahoo, end up going to Netscape, end up going to some other internet startups, It's kind of like what you see with crypto today, and you just see, wow, anything's possible”
Hans Tung Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 3:58 20VC: Investing Lessons From Rounds In Peloton and Square, Why Great Investing is Stock-Picking and Sector Penetration & The Next Decade in Venture, Is Tiger's The Right Model with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
Aug 7, 2023 bullish
Disclosure
Khosla: I decided immediately to back Marc Andreessen and Netscape
“He was definitely intense. I remember coming out of the meeting calling John Doerr and saying, let's just do this. Remember, the internet was this ambiguous thing. It was one of these triggering moments I call instigations for me. That's what he was like. It d…”
Vinod Khosla Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 41:30 Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 1, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Quattrone: Netscape's 1995 IPO was Morgan Stanley's biggest since Apple in 1980
“And there were a couple of phases to this, you know, Netscape, Netscape came public in 1995. And it was literally the most popular IPO at Morgan Stanley since Apple in 1980.”
Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 12:19 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024 positive
Opinion
Danny Rimer: Netscape was the OpenAI of the early internet era
“At the beginning of the internet, literally the first company of import was Netscape. I mean, in some ways it was probably the open AI of its day.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 5:05 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 29, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Reyes: OpenAI and Anthropic are currently in the Netscape and Yahoo era
“We are probably in like the Yahoo era where we don't actually have, or at least widely recognize The Googles of the world, or like the sort of the thing that comes after. And so today, when I look at OpenAI and Anthropic, there are, I think, more analogies to …”
Eno Reyes Aug 29, 2026 ▶ 55:48 Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
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