Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. Finance weenies not geeks. Then I got my MBA at University of Chicago and reinforced my brand. My brand was “business guy.”

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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