CompuServe
company on 13 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 41 times in 26 episodes since 2016
Acquired 9 
How I Built This 7 
Top Founders 4 
the a16z Podcast 4 
20VC 4 
Another Podcast 3 
the MAD Podcast 3 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
All-In 2 
the Knowledge Project 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
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Acquired 9How I Built This 7Top Founders 420VC 4the a16z Podcast 4Another Podcast 3the MAD Podcast 3All-In 24 more shows
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
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2023 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- 7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft, and Calendly
- a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
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2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
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6 statements about CompuServe, every show
Visa rented CompuServe's off-peak capacity for early POS digital transactions
“Visa ends up renting CompuServe network capacity to send their digital transactions from merchant point of sale terminals.”
Conrad: GIF creator Steve Wilhite fought for the 'Jif' pronunciation at CompuServe
“There was a guy on the team named Steve Wilhite who invented graphics interchange format, GIF. And he was a straight out of central casting, 19 sixties neckbeard programmer type. And the first I had ever encountered and very prickly. And it's crazy. But at the…”
Hoffman: Cuban sold MicroSolutions in 1990, netting $2 million
“Microsolutions was a success, reaching revenue of thirty million dollars. In 1990, Mark sold it to CompuServe, netting two million dollars.”
Mark Daniels: Launched first online store in 1985 on CompuServe
“I launched my first online store in 1985. People always challenged me on that, but it was part of CompuServe's electronic mall before the internet.”
Cuban: MicroSolutions Sold to CompuServe for $6M, Netting Him $2M
“Sold it for six million dollars, gave a chunk of it to my employees, ended up with two million and Martin ended up with two million, and boom.”
Olsher: Liquor.com filed S-1 in 2000, lost domain until 2005
“Well, actually it started as a catalog company in 91. We launched on CompuServe's electronic mall in 93, put together one of the first fully functional e-commerce sites in 95, and then picked up the domain liquor.com in 98, had the S one filed to go public in …”