Netscape

“As a consequence, we've also moved on from the single unified paradigm of Google, because Google is fundamentally about analyzing links and sending you to web pages, but if the internet is no longer just about web pages, then that PageRank model breaks down, j…”

“We applied for NSF funding to basically build a customer support team. And they informed us very kindly that that wasn't part of what NSF funds. So that was a good catalyst to go start a company”

“I think Netscape at their peak was, like, fifty million users or something. I mean, the numbers, like, crypto's probably above that right now.”

“We had at one point over 90%, you know, market share for all people on the internet using our browser, and it turned out there were fifty million people on the internet. Like, fifty million people around the world were on the internet. By the way, twenty-five …”

“When we invented JavaScript at Netscape in 1995, the concept of cross-site scripting was a complete unknown.”

“So we applied for NSF funding to basically build a customer support team. And they informed us very kindly that that wasn't part of what NSF funds. So that was a good catalyst to go start a company which was very helpful.”

“Netscape and Pixar were the two hottest IPOs of that year in 1995, but Netscape went first.”

“Because then I was able to start a company, it doubled every year, went public, one week before Netscape, actually, and so for one week, we were the big topic.”

“You can't apply this encryption to blockchain, because all this encryption from Julius Caesar to Alan Turing to Netscape is point to point.”

“96, I think we had 90% browser share mark and we had fifty million users. So there was like fifty five million people on the internet.”

“And so instead of suing us, what they did instead was they called Spyglass, any situation we were in where we were competing with Spyglass for a sale they, the University of Illinois administrators would call the customer and tell them that they were going to …”

“Yeah, that decision on their part yeah, cost them at least a billion dollars in direct stock, plus all the downstream philanthropy from me plus, plus all the downstream philanthropy from Jim Clark, plus all the other founding engineers.”

“Netscape, we almost bought Yahoo. There was like a bid ass spread between like 3,000,005 million dollars.”

“My company Netscape was always very active with defense and intelligence. We always leaned hard into it.”