The Ledger
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Zuckerberg: Adding features during platform rewrites risks projects never finishing
“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…”
Zuckerberg: Facebook paused feature development for a year during mobile rewrite
“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…”
Gilbert: Competing with your own distribution channel quickly kills your business
“If your distribution decides to compete with you, and decides to make that a priority, your business is over in a minute.”
Google shut down Google.com in 1999 to serve Netscape traffic
“In 1999, they shut Google down so that they could serve Netscape's users.”
Eich: Netscape's 1995 IPO broke precedent by listing unprofitably on speculation
“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.”
Pixar's 1995 IPO was larger than Netscape's
“So that hundred and forty million they raised makes it the largest IPO of the year. Larger than Netscape.”
Gilbert: 1999 Netscape deal brought Google three million searchers daily
“I mean, so the Netscape deal brought in three million total searchers per day.”
Netscape expanded from one million to fifteen million users in one year
“Netscape, we should say, goes from one million to fifteen million users in one year.”
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.”
Eich: Microsoft was convicted for threatening Compaq over Netscape bundling
“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.”