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Bijan Sabet

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  1. “Loves it. Yeah. Yeah. But Web TV, by the way, was amazing. Andy Rubin was at Web TV. I mean, just an amazing. First, they were Men.”

    2017-04-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Bijan Sabet, general partner, Spark Capital · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “I was still at here. Yeah, yeah. So I came in 91. And then after Web TV, I stayed at Microsoft for about 365 days. And then Steve Perlman and a bunch of us from WebTV, I'd say probably 10 of us started a company called Moxie Digital. Of course.”

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  3. “Deals with a cable company. That's right. That's right. And I ended up becoming a BizDev guy working with Greg Maffay and Hank Vill and investing in cable companies. And I was this little punky kid trying to pretend I knew what I was doing.”

    2017-04-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Bijan Sabet, general partner, Spark Capital · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Well, it was tough. It was really tough. Yeah. But you know what? The first holiday, there was so much hype and we didn't meet the expectations, but we started iterating, started building next generation products. And then two and a half years later, Microsoft bought the company for $400 million. $425 million.”

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  5. “And, you know, the idea was PCs at the time were thousands of dollars and we were going to make it so that it's compatible with the internet for $199.”

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  6. “On your television. So it was kind of a combination of Netscape and AOL. We had a dial up service and we sold a box in retail to consumers that remember.”

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  7. “No, no, it was a Palo Alto. It's in Pal You know, the idea of Web TV was to build a set top box that connects to everyday televisions and bring you the internet.”

    2017-04-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Bijan Sabet, general partner, Spark Capital · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Versus one, but then I met the three founders of Web TV. And I joined Web TV really early on. Yeah, Steve Perlman, Phil Goldman, and Bruce Leak, and joined WebTV. And that was my first real startup experience.”

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  9. “Those are good times. The German. Oh my God. The worst CEO. And I was in the Claris division. I don't know if you remember all this stuff. Oh, sure. And then I met the folks. But you want to be.”

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  10. “Right. And it was a dark time at Apple. But all I wanted to do was work visit Apple. But as soon as I got there, I found that somebody renamed the printer in our department resume writer. It was rebuilt. But I met a bunch of people there, great people, and I got introduced to you.”

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  11. “Correct, correct. Correct. You know, it was pre Wi Fi, pre-commercial internet. I mean, there was, I was on, I'm sure you could, I could find it. I was on some crazy Usenet groups back then, but I wasn't this amazing programmer. It was more just a kind of a ticket for me to get to do interesting things and get out here. So I worked for this little company in Santa Clara for a short period of time called Integrated Systems that made real-time operating systems. And then I went to Apple computer in”

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  12. “So, this was super, super early. AOL had just gotten started. Netscape didn't go public for many, many years. What were you thinking of computers at the time that they were sort of these little islands of computing?”

    2017-04-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Bijan Sabet, general partner, Spark Capital · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “Making stuff, figuring out problems, and just kind of, you know, building things. We were creating adding modems to these Apple II's early, figuring out how to talk to people around the planet. It was super exciting.”

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  14. “What was your You know, my dad is a doctor, but he was really into gadgets, computers. We got an Apple II early. And I was computer science. In college at Boston College.”

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  15. “I was 21 and I just was blown away. I'd never been out here before. And then when I came out from my first Mac World, I was just, you know, floored at what was going on.”

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  16. “From here I mean, the quick version of this is I'm a Long Island kid after undergrad, I came out here. I attended my first Mac World in 91 and then packed up my hatchback and moved out here and got a job.”

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  17. “Well, I grew up in New York, but my office is in Boston, and we have an office here in an office here in San Francisco, in New York, but home right now is Boston.”

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