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Jim Clark

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  1. “Now, people talk about the internet as being easy for hackers to get to fundamentally insecure as an architecture or needs to be rethought in some ways. Knowing what you know now, are there things that you think you could have done or that Netscape could have done that may have made it play out a little differently?”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “So now you know about the theories of product market fit and all that stuff. Like, how do you reconcile what happened at Netscape with the NOSHA product market fit? Yeah, so how do you reconcile because it just seems like one of these rare cases where it's just like lightning just struck and it was like huge right away?”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “So, see, yes, so what's it like? So you're just barely out of college, and all this stuff's happening around you. What's that like?”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “So, was the decision going public pretty obvious then at the time? It was just like your revenues were exploding. People want the product.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “And so then was there any sort of palpable moment where you're just like, holy crap, this is blowing up? Or had it kind of already blown up even before Netscape really got? Like, was there a was there any moment where you're inside a Netscape and you're just like, holy shit.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “So you changed it to Netscape. So then you do the Netscape browser to just immediately blow up. I mean, just everybody knew who you were. Everybody knew that you were the voice of browsers. So, like, what was”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Alexday, sitting here, even now. Very much so, yes. Yes, I'm still extremely angry. Thank you. How does that make you feel marked?”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Okay, so you raised some money for Netscape. Not sure if it's a business yet, but hey, let's go for it. And this must be around the time when Mosaic is starting to see even bigger lift, right? Because I seem to remember the summer of 94. It was starting to really become a thing”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Yeah. So then you decide to start this thing And you raise money from, well, he seed funds it at first. He's probably already been seed funding just your little vision quest. No, no, okay.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Had made it into a business. And I remember for a couple years, right, Upside Magazine at the time and things like that would say, you know, when's the internet going to have a business model? Yeah. Right. For about two years, people said nobody's going to have a business model.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “So he wasn't saying, I want Mark Andreessen because he invented the mosaic browser. It's like, I can't get any of these killer SGI engineers. He's maybe another new smart guy that I can get and not get sued.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Total GWiz company, right? Best graphics engineers in the world, best networking engineers in the world because you have to push the pixels over networking. I mean, it was just an incredible place to be.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Right, Yeah. And when you're your age starting Netscape, you don't have to translate, right? Like people who lived in Cartesian coordinates, they have to translate to go to Polar, right? And so people who lived in the world of tops down one-way digital super highway interactive TV, they had to translate that to what you were already doing, but to you, it's just obvious, right? It's like there wasn't anything for you to unlearn.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Built, yeah, and the thing that I've just seen time and again it's like you think about it when you were at the University of Illinois, you're hanging out with his supercomputers and you're building a browser It's almost like the world was thinking in Cartesian coordinates and you were raised to only think in polar coordinates, right? And so like your mind was prepared to receive the insight because like you said, you were living in the future. You may not have even known it at the time that you were living in the future, but it just and like so much of entrepreneurship I've found is it's like noticing it's it's you're living in the future and you notice something and you solve your own problem and you're not necessarily trying to get rich at the time you're just like I'm working on cool stuff and to do more cool stuff I got to build this thing so yeah”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Or a mouse, or anything unless you get into a button that has a slice of pizza on it. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Like we really had those.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “It was called But it's also funny because all of us were thinking about, okay, there's going to be this network-centric future, but most people were framing it in yesterday's metaphor. They were talking about the digital superhighway. And so as a result, people thought the center of gravity is going to be like set top boxes and video game consoles. I don't know if others had this reaction, but when I first saw the mosaic browser, it was instant like instant ignition. This is how it's going to play out, right? I just immediately knew the way we've been thinking about this is wrong. It's not going to happen on these set top boxes. It may someday, but like the browser is going to happen right here, right now, like there was just no doubt in my mind.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “So, did you decide, okay, I want to start a company, or were you just like, well, that's a bummer. My grandmother just went away.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Yeah, so maybe that's an initial sign of product market fit is when the university says, you know what, we're done with you using our resources here. You've outgrown this university.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Yeah, and it's funny because it's one of me, you know, we both know this guy well, balaji, Srinivasan, one of the things I really like is his notion of this idea maze. I think Chris Dixon talks about it too, right? It's to me, it's a way better way to come at the question because a lot of the, like all of it will happen someday, right? And so the question is just what's the right time for it to happen? And the idea maze is kind of this technique for understanding all the attempts that have occurred in the past and kind of understanding why those ideas got blocked and now do they get unblocked all of a sudden. How do you decide what to build first and which ideas are worth pursuing?”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “Yeah, and I remember, was it Vannevar Bush wrote something? He talked about this thing called the Memex, I think. And it hypertexts like in the 40s maybe even like a long time ago.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “I would love to just know about just how you got to building mosaic. How did you get involved with the internet in the first place?”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “And gates and jobs were the same way in PCs. You're obsessed with a field for its own sake and you start noticing things because you're down the rabbit hole.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “So, Mark, you've been involved with some pretty big wins. So, why don't we just start out by asking you what your advice to people who want to build something great?”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “Decided to do some things a little differently with this interview because I wanted to capture things about Mark's startup journey that most have likely not heard. I wanted to get a level deeper about how Netscape and the early web grew out of Mosaic Project. But I also wanted to help people see a side of Mark that few people see in public.”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “That's Mark Andreessen, who's now a famous venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz. At age 22, he found a Netscape, the company that kicked off the internet age. How did Netscape even happen? And what was it like when it was about to blow up? This is Mike Maples Jr. of Floodgate, and it's go time with Mark Andreessen. Welcome to Starring Greatness, a podcast dedicated to ambitious founders who want to go from nothing to awesome super fast. When you're a startup founder, you have to channel your InterJames Bond, your MacGyver, your Wonder Woman. I'm going to help you win by curating the lessons of the Super Performers. But before they were successful So without further ado Let's get started”

    2019-12-17 · a16z Podcast · The Journey from 0 to 1, from Mosaic to Netscape · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source