Netscape

“In the eighties, SGI had to have three profitable quarters before it could IPO, whereas Netscape just went on forward speculation and forward multiples, and it was not profitable.”

“They had the Windows Monopoly, but what they did in tying the browser to it and threatening Compaq with revocation of the Windows license if Compact Shift Netscape as the default browser was illegal, and they got convicted for it.”

“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.”

“Netscape, we should say, goes from one million to fifteen million users in one year.”

“If your distribution decides to compete with you, and decides to make that a priority, your business is over in a minute.”

“We basically took, I think it must have been like a year or something, we were just like, look, we're gonna pause feature development of the company, Because it's hard enough to do a rewrite, right? So if you look at, like, the history of the tech industry, th…”

“We basically took, I think it must have been like a year or something, we were just like, look, we're gonna pause feature development of the company, because it's hard enough to do a rewrite, right? So if you look at, like, the history of the tech industry, th…”

“In 1999, they shut Google down so that they could serve Netscape's users.”

“I mean, so the Netscape deal brought in three million total searchers per day.”

“So that hundred and forty million they raised makes it the largest IPO of the year. Larger than Netscape.”