Flickr

“The original payment he got was me buying stuff off his Amazon wishlist.”

“On the train to London every day, two hours in, two hours out, he wrote almost all of the guts of Flickr the way to upload the photos and to process them, to store them, display them.”

“It's pretty challenging to work with your spouse, especially in the early days of a startup, so this is going back many years now, when we first started working on Flickr, like, out of money, and it's not just the business is out of money, it's like, we're out…”

“Google had bought Blogger which was one of the early blogging programs, and they didn't have a way to host photos, so they put, you know, in their help materials online When people said, how do I upload photos? They said, use Flickr.”

“It was around twenty million bucks.”

“And that thing ended up being Flickr, and I think when we started it, the intention was, we'll build this, and someone will buy it for, like, a million dollars, and then we can use that million dollars to finish the game.”

“I mean, like, a hundred percent of the time, they would give the opposite advice today.”

“Now when we wanted to get more servers, we had to go to the hardware review committee, and you had to make an appointment, and you couldn't get an appointment for like five weeks.”

“Well, at the time we were required, it was nine people. So Nine people being acquired by what at the time I think was like an 11 or 12,000 person company.”

“So we had this vote. I lost you know, or Flickr lost in game one, so that I had to call Eric on the side and, like, you know, do some, what I imagine happens in the Senate, some kind of, like, horse trading to convince him to change his vote. And that worked, …”

“Well, I used some open source software called Gallery, and it was a PHP script that would allow pre-Flickr, pre-Facebook, pre-anything to post photos and have galleries online.”