203. Shirish Nadkarni On Microsoft, Hotmail, MSN and Blackberry Internet Email

203. Shirish Nadkarni On Microsoft, Hotmail, MSN and Blackberry Internet Email

Author: Brian McCullough October 20, 2021 Duration: 34:18
Serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni came to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com, the world’s leading web portal. Striking out on his own in 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom, he founded TeamOn Systems, an early pioneer of mobile email that was later acquired by BlackBerry before becoming BlackBerry Internet Email servicing over 50 million users at its peak. His great new book is: From Startup to Exit: An Insider's Guide to Launching and Scaling Your Tech Business

Brian McCullough's Internet History Podcast digs into the foundational stories of our digital world, exploring the pivotal moments and forgotten detours between the rise of the first mainstream web browser and the dawn of the modern mobile era. This isn't just a dry recounting of dates and corporate maneuvers. Instead, the podcast weaves together the intersecting threads of technology, business, and the profound societal shifts they triggered. You'll hear about the personalities, the breakthrough products, the spectacular failures, and the cultural phenomena that collectively built the internet as we know it. Each episode serves as a chapter in a larger, ongoing narrative about how connectivity reshaped everything from commerce and communication to creativity and community. For anyone curious about how we got here, this series provides essential context, revealing the human drama behind the code and the hardware. Tune in for a deeply researched, engagingly told chronicle of the forces that defined a generation and continue to shape our future.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Internet History Podcast
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144. The "First" Blogger, Justin Hall [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:44:56
A lot of people give credit to Justin Hall for being, if not the first, then spiritually, at least, the “first” blogger. Since early 1994, first as Justin’s Homepage and at various points, as Justin’s Links from the Unde…
143. Neil Hunt on the History of Netflix and Netflix Streaming [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:16:18
For several months now, I've been complaining on Twitter and a bunch of other places that, for as ubiquitous as Netflix streaming has become—I think it's one of the most important technology products of the last decade a…
142. Andy Rachleff @arachleff co-founder of Benchmark and Wealthfront [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:05
Andy Rachleff was a co-founder of Benchmark, one of the most respected venture capital firms to this very day, and one of the biggest venture players during the dotcom era. On today’s episode, Andy gives us more backgrou…
141. Nathan Latka @NathanLatka of the Top Entrepreneurs Podcast [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:16
Summary Check out The Top Entrepreneurs Podcast here!Books recommended on this episode: Storming the Magic Kingdom Walt Disney Unconventional Success Say Everything The Wikipedia Revolution The Innovators The Expanse Hos…
140. The Google Chef, Charlie Ayers [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:11
The famous Google Chef, Charlie Ayers, remembers joining Google when it was about 50 employees, the company’s early growth, culture, and the unique role he played in shaping that culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p…
139. The Napster Story with Jordan Ritter [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:44
If you know the Napster story at all, then you know about the Shawn(Sean)s. Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. But in my opinion, and in the opinion of a lot of other people, a name that you should be just as familiar with i…
138. (Ch. 9.2) The History of Google Part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:25
There was one important trait that Google shared with the dotcoms: it wasn’t making very much money. It’s somewhat forgotten, given what would come later, but Google existed for several years without much of a business p…
137. (Ch. 9.1) The History of Google Part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:30
When Larry and Sergey first met, they didn’t like each other much... BIBLIOGRAPHY: In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives The Google Story How Google Works The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewro…
135. The Pseudo.com Story With Dennis Adamo [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:26
Before Snapchat Stories, before YouTube, in the dial-up era of the 90s, there were a select few who were experimenting with streaming video and interactive media on the web. The most prominent and notorious of these pion…