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“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.”

“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.”

“We knew that if we started a travel agency, that from an equal access perspective, we ought to be able to plug into these electron, these big mainframe based reservation systems that ran the industry and act like a travel agent. And if we got discriminated aga…”

“Like, it's 2005, and the web has been around for now nine years or 10 years, but still, I couldn't get pictures of homes and complete listings and prices and addresses even. Like, I couldn't get the address of a home I was shopping for online.”

“And it cost nine 99 to buy the URL, which I was kind of cheap, and people wanted to sell us homes.com for five million dollars, and I was like, but I can make up a word and spend nine 99.”

“The way people did it was to just basically watch the market in their local neighborhood, right? Which was kind of hard to do, but if you keep some basic tabs on homes around your, you, or like yours that are being sold, what they're listing for, what they're …”

“Now we run all of these, you know, galactically complex artificial intelligence models and just feed as much raw data as we can get our hands on into these machines, these software machines, and see what comes out. And then, of course, we get to test the resul…”

“He had that personal technology column, and so I flew to DC to go pitch Walt, to give Walt a preview, secret preview, and we did that with several reporters, and we asked that it be embargoed until such and such a date, and Walt, just because he was Walt, kind…”

“No, I can't remember exactly, but it was down by eight a.m. It had tipped over and was sad and sick and dead by eight a.m. Of the launch day. Like, yeah, it immediately crashed.”

“Many do, but we have two hundred and thirty-five million users a month, many of them real estate agents.”

“Truthfully, our traffic held up quite, quite nicely throughout the whole thing, but because of massive uncertainty around business model and the pretty high expense burn rate we had, because at the time we had about 150 People at the company. This was the most…”

“MS-DOS-V was the first time that Egghead Software, which was the big retailer, software retailer at the time, had ever seen, they ran a midnight madness sale on the first day that the DOS-V upgrade was released, and they had people camping out and lining up ou…”