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Up until early summer 1998, eBay’s primary competition was Jerry Kaplan’s Onsale Exchange, which had launched in October 1997 and had failed to attract a critical mass. When Bob Kagle introduced eBay to Benchmark’s limited partners at the annual meeting in early June, eBay had an 89 percent market share. Kagle said that the company anticipated majo
... See moreRandall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
I’m famous for having invested $25,000 in Uber when it was worth around $5 million—it’s now worth $70 billion in the private markets. When I invested, Uber was operating in one city and they only had a couple of Lincoln Town Cars signed up. It wasn’t clear if the business could scale or make money, but I knew the founder was exceptionally driven an
... See moreJason Calacanis • Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
A bedrock principle of Google was serving its users—but a goal was building a giant artificial intelligence learning machine that would bring uncertain consequences to the way all of us live.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Larry Page and Sergey Brin had figured out how to mine that knowledge before the information retrieval establishment and commercial search engines even realized that it existed.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Embrace the struggle.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
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