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Rich Barton is hardly a household name. Perhaps this is because he’s not based here, and makes relatively few investments. However, while there are more visible founders (like Bezos and Zuckerberg) who’ve built bigger businesses, market cap and notoriety aren’t the only measures of a founder. And Barton is a strong contender for the title of best c... See more

kwokchain.com • Making Uncommon Knowledge Common

he worked as Netscape's product manager to pivot the server product line. Microsoft's IIS had all the features they had, was five times faster, and was free. Mike Homer and he worked furiously to acquire and partner. they beat Microsoft and grew the server line to $400M.

Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz

Founder vs. Investor

Daisy Alioto dirt.fyi

Flickr became a modest success and was acquired by Yahoo for $35 million in 2005, making Butterfield a Super Founder who, like many other Super Founders, went on to start a multibillion-dollar company next.

Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

The internet unlocks distribution. Traditionally, gatekeepers dictated who had influence: record labels, newspaper editors, studio executives. Now anyone can build an online community. You can share videos to YouTube, writing to Substack, music to Soundcloud

Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨

Was Chatting With a Well-Known Founder Yesterday About the "Founder...

Patrick Collison

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It was late 1996, and eBay’s online auction business had been solidly profitable since it was launched; the company did not need a cent. But Pierre Omidyar, twenty-nine, the original founder, and his new partner, Jeff Skoll, thirty-one, were the rare entrepreneurs who knew they needed to hire a CEO and other seasoned executives with skills they lac

Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

Remarkably, it is wholly owned by Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, who are two of the most understated billionaires in tech.

Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

We sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. Since then, Elon Musk has founded SpaceX and co-founded Tesla Motors; Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn; Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim together founded YouTube; Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons founded Yelp; David Sacks co-founded Yammer; and I co-founded Palantir. Today all seven of th