1999 Global Government Social Network 
thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 8, 2020
What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. And Social. It’s too early.
Reid Hoffman
MAY 16, 2020
Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. It was 1999. They were posting constantly updated photos of their coffee pots. You just started building.
Scalable Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them.
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