AOL, every mention
12 scenes (said by Brendan Eich), the whole family · ← back to AOL
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone David Rosenthal 59Ben Gilbert 36Jason Calacanis 12Brendan Eich 12Brad Gerstner 1Anthony Gonzalez 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AOL comes up
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:05 Brendan Eich Yes, and the Mozilla Suite was pretty much the un-Netscape, to use un-Googled as an analogy, the un-Netscape version of the code, and this actually started winning users because AOL bought Netscape and started festooning Netscape with
- ▶ 21:19 Brendan Eich ICQ buttons and aim buttons and things like that.
- ▶ 23:17 Brendan Eich And in fact, as AOL ingested Netscape, which at first didn't involve any
- ▶ 25:24 Brendan Eich And through an enormous stroke of luck, Mitch Kapoor, who founded Lotus one, two, three, and has his own experience with Microsoft's tricks, was friends with Ted Leonsis, one of the AOL executives.
- ▶ 26:39 Brendan Eich But when we learned AOL was going to shut down Netscape, Ted, to his credit, asked Mitch what to do.
- ▶ 26:57 Brendan Eich And in spite of some sniping by a VP at AOL, nobody liked who really wanted to
- ▶ 38:32 Brendan Eich And some of the people I've worked with at AOL or at Mozilla were working on the prototype.
- ▶ 39:06 Brendan Eich It had Darren Fisher, who I'd worked with at AOL.
- ▶ 1:02:42 Brendan Eich I knew how to do 10 people out of AOL with the Netscape Mozilla codebase because I'd worked on that codebase with hundreds of engineers at
- ▶ 1:02:51 Brendan Eich You know, Netscape AOL.
- ▶ 1:02:56 Brendan Eich AOL did lay off a lot of them, but kept some on.
- ▶ 1:03:13 Brendan Eich We were burning down the two million dollars from AOL.