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Chamath: His Winamp team secretly released Gnutella source code on AOL servers
“We actually released that on AOL's servers without them knowing. It took them a few hours to figure this out. They called us. We shut the whole thing down. But in those few hours, it was downloaded about five or 6000 times all this open source code that we put…”
Early Silicon Valley was a monoculture of elite university and tech alumni
“And in Silicon Valley at the time, you know, it really, there is a very monocultural aspect of, you know, folks from a few schools, you know, folks having worked at a few companies and I had neither, you know, I worked, I went to Waterloo, which is in Canada, …”