Browser Wars - The Birth of a Dot Com Giant | 2
Business Wars
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🗓️ 29 November 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Two disgruntled tech whizzes, Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen, join forces to exact revenge on the companies that wronged them, building a browser so fast and powerful that it wipes their competitors off the face of the web. In private, they call it a “Mosaic Killer,” but in public, it’s called “Netscape Navigator.”
The launch of their new browser will mark the beginning of a new era in computing, the birth of a new economy based on the web, and the moment Microsoft put a target on their backs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to business wars. Add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:12.6 | Jim Clark is in a sour mood as he packs up the last boxes in his office. He looks wistfully at the desk |
| 0:19.2 | He's called home for all these years |
| 0:21.8 | It's 1994 and Clark is a year shy of 50 |
| 0:25.3 | He's been ousted from Silicon Graphics the computer manufacturing company he co-founded more than a decade ago |
| 0:32.3 | Now not only is he out of a job |
| 0:34.7 | He's been burned by his own investors who showed him the door without a fair exit package |
| 0:39.9 | Forget about a golden parachute. Clark feels like he's been pushed off a cliff |
| 0:45.2 | On his final day in office a young SGI colleague gives him a hand and offers some parting sympathy |
| 0:52.4 | I'm sorry things shook out this way |
| 0:55.4 | I don't need pity what I need are names of some crack young software engineers. You know any? |
| 1:02.0 | Well the first that comes to mind is a guy named Mark and Dreson. You know him? |
| 1:07.8 | Clark doesn't |
| 1:09.3 | Preoccupied by the internal drama at SGI. He hasn't been paying attention to the ins and outs of web browsing |
| 1:16.6 | But people in Silicon Valley have |
| 1:19.5 | And Dresons created a web browser that's moved the internet from the domain of geeks and academics |
| 1:25.3 | Into the mainstream |
| 1:27.4 | Here I'll show you how to download and Dreson's web browser. It's called mosaic |
| 1:32.7 | As the aid leaves he looks back to see Clark squint at the screen |
| 1:37.6 | tentatively clicking around |
| 1:42.2 | Clark's company known as SGI came up with a process that transformed three-dimensional computer graphics |
| 1:48.7 | In the process the company changed the way everything from cars to jets buildings to suspension bridges or designs |
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