Prodigy
company on 10 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 32 times in 19 episodes since 2017
How I Built This 10 
Acquired 4 
the MAD Podcast 4 
the Knowledge Project 3 
the a16z Podcast 3 
20VC 3 
Capital Allocators 2 
Founders 1 
We Live to Build 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1
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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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- Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
- Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- 20VC: Farfetch Founder, José Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO
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- 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
- 20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
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2017 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Pincus: TCI Considered $400M Prodigy Stake Instead of Buying AOL for $110M
“At one point, TCI was going to buy a third of Prodigy. It was The biggest online provider at the time, and it was terrible... And AOL had just gone public and was worth a hundred and ten million. Prodigy, this deal was to pay four hundred million for a third o…”
Barton spoofed travel agents on Prodigy to access airline reservation systems
“There was a service on Prodigy that enabled me to access directly the airline and hotel reservation systems. I could spoof being a travel agent.”
Barton pitched Bill Gates on a graphical online travel booking service
“I showed him Prodigy, and it was all a command line really ugly thing, but I talked about how I could see him doing a Kind of a Windows version of this and giving it to consumers could be a complete game changer for consumer empowerment. And he agreed, yeah.”