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Sunil Paul

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  1. “I think one of the lessons Everything seems like it's going to the moon, and it doesn't always go to the moon. Sometimes there's things you just can't predict. In that case, it turned out it was sysadmins that got tired of all this traffic coming in, mostly from Pointcast, and started turning it off. And they turned us off as well, and that led to just basically the destruction of the entire category”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “You know, we ended up building that company very, very quickly and selling it within, I think, five or six months of founding it. And thank God because the whole category fell apart. Maybe six months later It was an interesting lesson. It's an interesting lesson.”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “They made Well, Freeloader was, I like to say, it was the hottest thing on the internet for about nine months. And it was part of this category called push. Where the idea was instead of Pointcast was the big one, that was the big one, and Pointcast and the concept of push was on the cover of Wired Magazine.”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “It's that small. It's like, oh, there's another tech company in town. Let's go there. They made a beautiful CD ROM. They made some beautiful. No one bought them in the end CD-ROMs. So you guys started freelance. She was playing freeloader to the people who don't call.”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Yeah, that's right It's called freeload Yeah, and we sublet office from them. It's that small. It's like, oh, there's another tech company in town. Let's go there.”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “Yes, I do. Literally wrote the book. Yes, I did, indeed. So you were there, and then you started a company with Mark Pincus. Yeah, that's right. It was called Freeloader. Freeloader. I wrote about in The Washington Post. It was one of the few. You in a magnet interactive were the only interesting companies in D.C.”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “That's right, correct. And then Gore was there too. I've forgotten all those details, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it was a hub, especially, I think, Sprint and all these other companies had kind of focused on that area. And AOL, honestly, I'm not exactly sure why AOL started there. Because it was not.”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “ANS, yeah. It was purchased by AOL. There was a bunch of them were out there, a ton of them at the time. And people don't realize it was because it was near May East. Correct. That's right. And then Gore was there too. I've forgotten all those.”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “I came to DC to work on space station. My early career, I was an engineer. I helped do the early design for a space station. And then I got really interested in policy because Congress kept mucking around with the space station. So I went, spent several years as a policy analyst on the hill for Office of Technology Assessment While I was there, I started mucking around with this new thing that was the early 90s. I started mucking around with this new thing called the internet. And that.”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “I think I was a demo. Some demos. I recalled demo boeing for Steve Case. Yeah, I, you know, somehow that didn't make it on my LinkedIn profile. Okay, all right. So you were working very well. What products did you work?”

    2018-08-06 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT