internet

“I don't think this is unique to media. I think media was the first to experience this sort of squishing in the middle, but it's gonna happen to everything.”

“I mean, I think everything in our time that we've thought of as that, as mobile, cloud, web three, you know, VR, all like, It's all still just the internet. Those are aftershocks. That's not the event.”

“It grew 2300 X from January first 1993 to January first 1994.”

“Basically points out if you can do something in the old paradigm, you should. And when there's a new paradigm like the internet, you basically want to find things that you could not do any other way. In order to really exploit the power of the new paradigm.”

“Human knowledge is cumulative, and lately it's been rushing forward at an incredible pace, so it's hard to imagine that there's a piece of information that I can get off the internet that's going to make me any money for the simple reason that everybody else c…”

“Andy would later say, this is a great quote, and this is absolutely true. He says, if you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, Then the operating system becomes the internet. And that's so tru…”

“The key to success on the internet is you want to be the biggest fish in the pond, but the success metric is not competing with other fish. It's finding your own pond. The opportunity is broad. It's not deep. Like in each pond, there's probably gonna be one or…”

“What the internet does do in industry after industry, I think this applies to creative talent as much as anything else is number one, there's always a barbell effect. You're either very large or very small, you're very large, you get scale, you get aggregation…”

“A lot of people play characters on the internet, and Which in other mediums Plays really well. And, like, It's a way to catapult growth. If you adopt a polarizing character, you can get a bunch of followers. Yeah. There's like a, there's a lot of dividends tha…”

“Right at this point in history, only 14% of Americans had internet access.”

“In the hardcover version, there are three portions of the book where it is discussed. In the softcover version, the index for the internet takes up an entire page.”

“But in retrospect, the thing that mattered about Windows 95 all these years later is that's the platform that everyone started using the Internet on. And everything that we talked about in the last episode, yeah, it's all important, but it's not nearly as impo…”

“This is like the first time in history where you need neither money nor permission to launch an application like this on the internet.”

“Niches are way bigger than you think they are. So if you think you're writing about a niche topic, the internet being a global community of four-ish billion people means that any little niche, there might be six people in your geography that care about it in …”