Browser Wars - An Offer They Can’t Refuse | 4
Business Wars
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🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It’s summer 1995, and Bill Gates is worried about the sudden rise of the Internet. In the world of computers, Gates is used to being in the driver’s seat. Now it seems he’s not even in the car.
Marc Andreessen has just launched the latest version of Netscape Navigator. It’s faster and more stable than the last version, and still, inexplicably, free. The Internet is a massive success, certain to work its way into every person’s life, but as Gates pokes around he can’t find a single Microsoft file on it. To stay in the game, Gates realizes, that will have to change.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars, add free on Amazon music. |
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| 0:07.0 | June 1995, Mountain View, California. |
| 0:20.0 | Bill Gates slowly sinks into a high back chair across from his new found nemesis. |
| 0:25.4 | Mark Andreessen, the creator of Netscape, a rival web browser that's taken the internet |
| 0:31.4 | by storm. |
| 0:33.1 | Gates and his team are meeting on Andreessen's turf at Netscape headquarters. |
| 0:37.6 | Andreessen is flanked by two other Netscape executives, Jim Clark and Jim Barkstale. |
| 0:44.4 | With sunlight flooding the room through the windows, there's a high-noon quality about |
| 0:49.5 | the drama about to unfold. |
| 0:53.0 | Neither side trusts or likes the other. |
| 0:57.4 | Netscape Chairman Jim Clark is highly suspicious of Microsoft's motives. |
| 1:03.7 | What do you want, guys? |
| 1:05.7 | Gates leans his elbows on the table. |
| 1:08.7 | We've just released the Microsoft Explorer browser and now both of our companies are |
| 1:13.2 | wasting resources fighting over the same customers. |
| 1:17.1 | But we have a solution, a business relationship. |
| 1:21.1 | What kind of business relationship? |
| 1:23.7 | Microsoft will invest a big chunk of money in Netscape and you put us on your board. |
| 1:29.9 | Andreessen scribbles notes on a legal pad. |
| 1:32.8 | He's about to respond when Clark jumps in. |
| 1:35.3 | Bill, why would we ever put a competitor on our board? |
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