Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

In Gates and Ellison’s minds, the corporations who owned the Information Super Highway would tax every transaction by charging a “vigorish” as Microsoft’s then Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold referred to it at the time. It’s difficult to overstate the momentum that the proprietary Information Super Highway carried.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

But rather than being on a public text chat, the user has an option to “form a private room” and invite friends via a social network or a direct link. On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo.

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