Netscape, every mention
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every year anyone Tim Sullivan 2Bill Trenchard 2Will Cook 1Tom Lenehan 1Richard Tedlow 1Matt Spielman 1Jeff Hausenbold 1Gavin Baker 1Ellen Ellison 1Chris Dixon 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Netscape comes up
Gavin Baker – Truth-Seeking and Crossover Investing at Atreides (EP.489)
- ▶ 1:12:12 Gavin Baker If ChatGPT is to AI as Netscape Navigator was, we're in year three of what should be a 20, 25, thirty-year really exciting cycle or trend.
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 23:48 Alex Sacerdote It's just like the Netscape moment, and then four of us really spent a 110% of our time just sprinting to learn everything
Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- ▶ 26:03 Tim Sullivan This was probably in the late-nineteen-nineties, so I think Netscape was on the list, and
- ▶ 29:55 Tim Sullivan Not that long after the Netscape IPO, I think we started thinking, wow, things are getting kind of nutty here.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 6:34 Chris Dixon Marc Andreessen and a bunch of other people created Mosaic and that became Netscape.
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 14:00 Aydin Senkut And most people don't realize this because look, nobody in history, nobody like talks about the losers or the companies that get extinguished, but a lot of companies like Netscape, TiVo, like all this, like digital recording, all these are…
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 15:02 Bill Trenchard It was right in the mid nineties when Netscape was getting going.
- ▶ 15:05 Bill Trenchard It was the early, early days of the internet, like Netscape Communicator just had launched.
Will Cook - Sunriver Management (Manager Meetings, EP.22)
Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- ▶ 25:05 Richard Tedlow One was Netscape had its IPO, and that everybody knew that that meant that the internet was real and important.
Matt Spielman – Executive Coaching in Asset Management (Capital Allocators, EP.210)
- ▶ 11:41 Matt Spielman There was also an opportunity to generate meaningful wealth at that time, and this is sort of on the heels of Yahoo buying Geocities and several years after Netscape going public.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 11:53 Jeff Hausenbold And I got a call from Jim Clark, who founder of Netscape, Silicon Graphics, WebMD, and he owned 52% of Shutterfly, and they were looking for a new CEO.
Ellen Ellison – Playing to Your Strengths (Capital Allocators, EP.27)
- ▶ 32:42 Ellen Ellison So when we, and the internet was in fact invented at the university, and Netscape was invented at the University of Illinois.
Tom Lenehan – Perpetual Thinking at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.04)
- ▶ 18:35 Tom Lenehan So technology was just coming out, and we had just had Marc Andreessen with, you know, Netscape, and then all of a sudden we had, you know, one of the very first e-commerce sites with Amazon.