Ted Leonsis, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Ted Leonsis comes up
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 13:10 Jason Calacanis It was like, Ted Leonsis had this March to a Billion, my Greek brother, a mentor, had this, like, March to a Billion, uh, offsite.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 25:36 Brendan Eich Ted's a very nice guy.
- ▶ 25:47 Brendan Eich And Ted said, hey, Mitch, I've got this thing, Mozilla, I don't know what to do with.
- ▶ 26:39 Brendan Eich But when we learned AOL was going to shut down Netscape, Ted, to his credit, asked Mitch what to do.
- ▶ 26:53 Brendan Eich And that was just huge, you know, good fortune because Mitch then told Ted what to do.
- ▶ 27:04 Brendan Eich Ted did the right thing and gave us two million over two years to spin out the Mozilla project.