Netscape fought Internet Explorer in the browser wars.
Netscape had their IPO where they valued at billions of dollars with zero profit.
Netscape , Mahalo.
Netscape was the first commercial internet browser.
Netscape .
Netscape those were you know the Mosaic browser page in you know the very birth
Netscape was a very popular piece of software but they were not able to
Especially post Netscape in '98, '99, every startup was trying to do the things that they read about in the magazines that they read about us.
And the fact that Netscape had this famous IPO in 1995 that made, I actually remember clearly, it made the nightly news and things like that.
The other thing that Netscape did, and this is obvious when you state it, but think of how conceptually what a leap this was.
The founder of Netscape , a famous investor.
And I argue that Netscape went public helped, obviously, bring the internet alive, gave us open standards to make sure no company dominated the internet,
into the Netscape Navigator, but they couldn't do it because they couldn't figure out this issue.
It was Netscape 's founding.
And it wasn't Netscape 's founding per se.
founder of Netscape and he said businesses that don't exist or markets that don't exist don't care how smart
AOL uh company called Netscape Mosaic and the question we had is if those
team that filled netscape to aol way back in the day uh since business school i've been in technology working for siebel and oracle
you are busy building Netscape .
the specification for Netscape 2.0 some year, some years ago, somebody may remember the browser Netscape .
taken the job at Netscape the second thing I would have done is in 96 I wouldn't have started my own
we know like Netscape five times as large as Netscape AOL eight times as
was borne by the media attention that Netscape got when it IPO-ed 1995, which we'll get to in a second.
Because you can argue that Netscape with a web browser, that's still a software product.
they would go to Internet Explorer or Netscape and type that address in, and voila, they would see the web page.
Who would be the next Netscape of the blockchain?
It wasn't even a Netscape browser.
And I had just come from Netscape and went up to Bill Gates's office.
a gazillion hours a week at Netscape , he sometimes thought, "Why did I leave the job where I was just writing screensavers?"
or Jim Clark after starting Netscape pulled a bunch of a set of SGI to start the company and that felt my perception of risk around that was lower but rather
team that went out to California to found Netscape , sans Marc Andreessen, who even though we talk on Twitter refuses to come on the show.
Another point that I make in the book is that Netscape was the big bang because the rock star
So I devote the entire first chapter to telling the Netscape story because of some of the things, the groundwork that it laid for this era
coach, a coder at Netscape , a janitor, a 26-year-old mother of five from the Bay Area, a gay, single dad from Wichita.
So we started this like a week after Netscape .
Some of you weren't even born when Netscape came out.
Yahoo and Netscape had gone public in the previous two years.
And she began her career as an interaction designer at Netscape Communications.
this is about when it's happening and Netscape has gone public.
people wouldn't imagine using the net in 1995 and Netscape wasn't quite or browser wasn't a common term almost
initially led the exciting adoption of the web so if Netscape added a feature every web developer learned it and and we all used it and it wasn't a standard
write it four different ways for ie3 ie4 Netscape 3 Netscape 4 so some colleagues
browsers that would you know later become mozilla and netscape those were you know the mosaic browser page
around 60 people we started in 95 pre Netscape so very early and we just did great work programming project management this sort of stuff
This isn't by now a nonprofit that came out of Netscape before but you can see there the terms of service were short and they grew and grew and grew and
To a person, all of the Mosaic slash Netscape engineers, almost unbidden by me, wanted to make the point that they're like this sort of work
They really were the original Mosaic six that went out to found Netscape with Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
If you think about it, what Netscape did-- at the time when the web arrived, all the pieces were very disconnected.
In the meantime, he's seeing companies like Netscape getting funded at these huge valuations and he's saying, look, at I've got this great product.
new browser and they were just under so many constraints um by Netscape that they would meet after after work at