internet

“We always believed that the killer app of the internet was people. Some thought it would be content, particularly the media companies. Some thought it would be commerce, particularly the retail companies. We thought content and commerce would be important, but…”

“The internet wouldn't exist without the government. You know, it was the government 50 years ago that funded DARPA that created the internet. It was the government Through the judicial system that broke up the phone company, you know, Ma Bell, which unleashed …”

“About three percent of America was online an average of one hour a week.”

“And with each project, the timeline for it to spread got shorter. So, so, so the Nike email diffused over something like three and a half months, and then rejection line was like two months for, you know, and then like it was like two, three weeks you know, so…”

“Well-intentioned people, I think most of whom are well-intentioned in D.C., writing bills for technology they don't really understand without people around them who are themselves technologists often lead to things like SOPA and PIPA, and those were two bills …”

“You know, that Tofurky was one of the first frozen products ever to be sold on the internet.”

“In fact it's kind of mind-blowing, but rec.music.gdead, the Grateful Dead news group, was the most popular thing on the entire internet. It was like, in terms of traffic, it was the Netflix of its day, just like the text postings going back and forth”

“And I think when we look back tens of thousands of years to this time, it will seem as significant as the development of written language, because it just allows this accretive knowledge allows the accessibility, it allows this instant communication and coordi…”

“Basically, no beauty was sold on the internet, and it was almost 2010. It's like two percent, and that was almost like a jaw-dropping moment to us.”

“I think they do, but also what changed in that period of time is the internet. You know, the outlet stores were a way to bring value to the customer, but the internet does it effortlessly. There's a whole marketplace that aggregates the best existing product w…”

“On the internet, there are literally millions of people who will like your stuff if your ratio is one in a thousand. You can get millions of fans and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.”

“We built our own internet we maintained our own internet, we built our own printer interfaces, we built our own computer terminals.”

“You know that Tofurky was one of the first frozen products ever to be sold on the internet.”

“I think I was in high school, and I went and asked my grandfather, you know, do you think I should go into the family business? Because, you know, it's, it had been a business handed down generation to generation four times, and he said, nope, stay away. I rec…”

“Turns out it wasn't. That's what we found out when we went out to talk to some people who actually knew how to build things on the internet or build things out of software.”

“I genuinely don't recall much conversations in the early days of the internet about some of the negative externalities that could come with it, right? And it was much more of a positive view.”

“I think that we, at some point, had a hypothesis that the department stores were really created for sort of two reasons, right? A convenience And breadth of selection. And that we saw a possibility that they could no longer be convenient because of just travel…”

“Yeah, I mean, I do think that the era of brands lasting 50 years are no more. Because of the internet and technology.”

“The folks that kind of were the gatekeepers at the big software companies at that time, Microsoft, Borland, Lotus Weren't interested in selling their software over the internet. They were more worried about hurting their sales through the conventional channels…”