“We think about giving it away from time to time.”
Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, showing that decisive touch with the product that made his company’s name, News.com, 16 December 1997
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In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.
DOESN’T SPENDING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY REMIND YOU OF COLLEGE?
“I don’t know how much we even thought of the idea of becoming entrepreneurs.There was a bit of a learning curve but it is really intellectually stimulating. The model hasn’t been proven yet. There is this feeling that we’re treading new turf.”
Feed magazine cofounder and reluctant entrepreneur Steven Johnson, on pulling off a quarter-million round of financing, @NY, 12 December 1997
AND SO MY BOSS GAVE ME AN IMAGINARY BUDGET
“This has been a dream because we’ve done so many extraordinary things — our imagination was really the only limitation.”
Richard Bangs, “adventurist” and editor of the Microsoft Network’s Mungo Park travel adventure site, which MSN VP Pete Higgins recently shuttered, ZDNN/Reuters, 10 December 1997
MY NEXT BOOK: “BUSINESS PLANS THAT DON’T SUCK”
“The strange thing was that we were given basically two years to compete in a vacuum. And capitalism abhors a vacuum, just like nature.”
Jeff Bezos, explaining his accidental entrepreneurial success at the helm of online bookseller Amazon.com, Nightly Business Report, 10 December 1997
THAT’S WHY THEY CALL ‘EM “SCARE QUOTES”
“We’re the bridge between a complex university and a complex business world…. Universities don’t do marketing. We call it ‘development.'”
Jimm Burris, who handles “technology transfer” for New York University’s Center for Advanced Technology, The Village Voice, 10 December 1997
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