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Brian McCullough

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  1. “Those patterns, I think, are the most valuable. I always forget the name of it. It's on eBay, but it's a card game from 2005. I think it was like Dotbomb or something, but it was a joke because at the time it was, of course, the internet had sort of become a joke. And the cards were each, it was bad idea cards. And it was like internet grocery delivery, internet money. It was funny because I actually wrote a blog post about this. It's somewhere where it's almost like all of the companies that are sort of the hot companies today in technology were these quote-unquote bad ideas, which I think the lesson is, I think Mark Andreessen said this, like there are no bad ideas or just ideas that are too early, right? I mean, and you saw it all happen in that kind of primordial soup of the 90s.”

    2022-03-10 · a16z Podcast · How the Internet Happened · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Learn from the mistakes, yeah. Why forget the things that failed? When you go into the dot com era stuff and those chapters, you're seeing all the things like grocery delivery, like cloud computing, cloud storage and things like that, that were always good ideas, but seemed like the most boneheaded, wrong ideas at the time because it was just too soon. So there's so many lessons all throughout the book of not just why did this thing work and that thing didn't, but why did that thing not work then and does it work in other contexts and learning those patterns, I think, are the most valuable?”

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  3. “And that's important, I think, even if you aren't someone who's interested in history per se or whatever. If you want to understand, I mean, I think I would argue, and I assume you would agree, that if you want to sort of try to predict the future of your industry, you should know where it came from, right? And that gives you a good gives you pattern recognition. Pattern recognition, but also”

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  4. “Why did they do it? Why did they not? So I was thinking, number one, of my parents, and here's how you got a supercomputer in your pocket, all that stuff. But number two, as we were talking about off air about 10 years ago, you know, I'm 40 now, so I started to, when I meet with young entrepreneurs and things like that, they start to say things like, oh, wow, you were around for the dot-com stuff. What was that like? So now 10 years on, if you're 26, you know, the internet has just always been in the ether all around. So if you're a young entrepreneur entering tech today, I wanted, here is your industry. Yeah. And not going all the way back to even the PC era. No. The modern era of web-based startups, especially the book cover sort of”

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  5. “And then number two was really entertaining, it was a great read. I highly recommend reading it. But then the third thing is I think it's a great resource, especially for younger people who are interested in technology or, I guess, in some ways everyone might be interested in the internet these days, right? Even if they're not in the technology industry, they probably should be interested in the internet. I just think it's a great resource to have what may become the canonical kind of history of the internet for that period.”

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  6. “So, I thought it was a really fun book. I guess I had lived through some of it and knew some firsthand and had heard a lot of the stories from some of the principals or sort of secondhand. I'll say first, I really like the book because as far as everything I knew, which I'd say maybe more than half of it or something from first to secondhand, it was very accurate. And so I just appreciate that.”

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  7. “This is Chris Dixon. This is the A60Z podcast, and today we have Brian McCullough, the author of the recent awesome book, which I just read called How the Internet Happened From Netscape to the iPhone. Thanks for being here, Brian.”

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  8. “With Web3 gathering more momentum than ever before across the entire tech ecosystem, what can we learn from the recent past of tech adoption? In this episode from December 2018, author and podcaster Brian McCullough talks with A16Z general partner Chris Dixon about the origins of the Internet. Based on Brian's book, How the Internet Happened, or Netskate to the iPhone, which covers the beginning of the Internet era, now known as Web 1.0, through the dot-com boom and bust, the beginning of Web 2.0, and the advent of mobile with the iPhone. They discuss lessons learned, how innovation doesn't always happen in a straight line, and what the past can tell us about the next phase of the Internet technology and the future.”

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