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
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
here to work for netscape working on internet software um which was pretty much the opposite of the spectrum in terms of uh maturity and process and
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
after I graduated 97 I went to Netscape and uh from day one one of the things
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
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
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
Who has a Hotmail account anymore, or a Netscape account?
computer out of the box it wasn't like he was trying to kill Netscape as you were wanting to load it onto your machine
could see them wanting to selectively cut back on it like wanting to kill Netscape cuz you've got your own brow Internet Explorer that you want to favor
So nobody ever talks about the Netscape browser anymore from what I can tell.
because 95, he was after the Netscape IPO.
In the Wall Street Journal in 2011, the Netscape founder and venture capitalist wrote that software is eating the world.
And my classmates went to Netscape and Cisco and Jeff Skoll, Class of 95 went to eBay to become the President of the company here in the valley.
pretty profound um what do Microsoft and Apple and and and Google and uh and Netscape and and
And I worked with Marc Andreessen and started Mosaic, become Netscape .
They've they've they've acquired like all the content in the world and they know everything and it's called Netscape ."
of you who don't know, he was an early employee at Netscape , wrote the Unix version of mosaic or whatever it's called Netscape I guess, before it was Mozilla -- but he actually got
You know Blake Ross was working at Netscape and he was working with other people to design a
but that's okay and then Microsoft to compete at it a feature and it wasn't supported in netscape 's browser so what ended up happening was uh that in order
platform that third parties could write software on and he wouldn't be serving a gatekeeping role somebody wants to run Netscape on their machine he tried to
Ben and I were product managers together at Netscape earlier in my career.
I'd gone through -- I'd graduated in '93, a little something called the Netscape browser was launched around that time, and I lived through
And I worked for AOL until 1999, when I got laid off along with 800 of my closest friends because they merged with Netscape .
I said Bill, I just came from Netscape and they're saying you're doing this.
But something started happening, which is that now it was the mid '90s and everyone at home was talking about Yahoo and Netscape ,
Before co-founding Geomagic, she managed the team that created NCSA Mosaic, which later became the Netscape
And he ended up getting the ultimate founders or cofounders of Pixar, of Adobe, Alan Kay who's worked on the Macintosh and very influential, Jim Clark, Silicon Graphics and Netscape .
to Silicon Valley and did a lot of writing for Rolling Stone and for New York Times Magazine and other publications about the Internet boom, about Netscape , about the early days
And Netscape was giving away the browser for free and to sell the