(Bonus) Joshua Schachter And The del.icio.us Story

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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Joshua Schachter is mostly known these days as a prominent angel investor, but his claim to fame is as the founder of del.icio.us, one of THE sites and startups that convinced me and a lot of other people that the internet space wasn’t dead, in the wake of the dotcom bubble. So, consider this in the spirt of the longreads. A profile of a key startup and entrepreneur, that got the web and the world to where we are today. Sponsors: BitTrustIRA.com/techmeme Monday.com/ride NewYorker.com/techmeme Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.
0:07.0	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.0	So if you've been listening to this show long enough, then you probably know I got my start in podcasting about seven years
0:14.2	ago with the Internet History Podcast. I did 200 episodes, my book How the Internet
0:20.9	happened came out of that podcast and in many ways this podcast came out of that whole project
0:26.1	But I haven't done an episode of IHP in over a year folks kept asking me if it was dead and I was like, it's not dead when I find the time.
0:36.3	When someone is available that I couldn't resist talking to, I would do more episodes.
0:40.0	Well, that time is now. Joshua Shactor is mostly known these days as a prominent angel investor
0:46.0	but his original claim to fame is as the founder of Delicious.
0:49.0	One of these sites and startups that convinced me and a lot of other people that the internet space
0:53.6	wasn't dead in the wake of the whole dot-com bubble bursting.
0:57.8	So consider this in the spirit of the weekend long reads, a profile of a key startup and key entrepreneur that got the
1:05.0	web and the world to where we are today. I'm just going to drop the full
1:08.8	internet history podcast episode in here now. If you like what you hear and you've never listened to the
1:13.8	internet history podcast, you're in luck. Something around 300 hours of
1:18.4	binging is waiting for you. Internet history podcast. Enjoy. Enjoy. Oh, Welcome to the Internet History Podcast, I'm your host Brian McCullough. So yeah, it's been a while.
1:57.0	Over a year in fact, since we did an episode of the show. Thank you all of you who asked me when this
2:04.2	podcast was coming back, asked me if it was dead, it is not dead, it was just
2:08.9	resting. I kept saying that when I found the time and when someone approached me that I absolutely
2:15.7	couldn't refuse I would take this out for a spin once again and here we are and for very good reason.
2:22.4	Joshua Schachter, founder of Delicious, is someone I wanted to talk to from the very first day of this project.
2:29.0	As we'll discuss, Delicious was such a standard bearer of the Web 2.0 era of user-generated content of sharing
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