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Excite

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 28, 2022 by David Rosenthal · said 14 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Sep 28, 2022 neutral
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David Beirne recruited Jim Barksdale as Netscape CEO before joining Benchmark
“So David ends up doing the CEO searches for Netscape. He brings in Jim Barksdale, which of course is a Kleiner company and a John Doar company. He does the same for Excite.”
David Rosenthal Sep 28, 2022 ▶ 59:26 Benchmark Part I · Acquired
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
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Excite licensed Google's Backrub search technology for $1M in 1997
“And Vinod is on the board of Excite. And so somehow Larry and Sergey, and I think they bring Scott along, get a meeting with Vinod and they hammer out a deal that Excite is going to license this back rub search technology from the two of them for about a milli…”
David Rosenthal Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 30:50 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
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