On March 20th, 2000 Inktomi had a market capitalization of 25 billion dollars. Inktomi was the #1 search engine in the world for a while. Despite our relevance being so great, there was one huge red flag: engineers at Inktomi were starting to use Google as our search engine. Life was good. What happened? Enter The Google. MORE >>

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world.  I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college.  MORE >>

Apathy (2000). search engine. This HN thread by the founder of Github on side projects got me thinking. thought it would illustrative to enumerate my projects. Velvet Donk (1996-2000). An e-zine featuring essays from me and other people I knew. Picked up a lot about HTML layout messing around with it. Donk mailing list (1997-2001). MORE >>

E-commerce accounts for the vast majority of LL Bean’s revenue today ( it crossed 50% in 2010 though was as low as 15% in 2000 ), but because LL Bean is over a hundred years old and started as catalog & physical store retailer we typically don’t refer to it as an internet company. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. About Me. MORE >>

invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). It’s my goal to join the ranks of those excellent companies at WP Engine. The launch, by the way, was a failure. Surely not. MORE >>