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Acquired

The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We sit down with perhaps the only person besides Marc Andreessen who’s had a major influence on each of the Web 1, 2 and 3 eras: Brave Browser CEO (and former Netscape + Mozilla Chief Architect) Brendan Eich. In true Acquired fashion we cover both a huge amount of both internet history AND internet future in one awesome conversation. Big thank you to Brendan for making this so special — tune in!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Dude, I cannot believe that in recording this we asked the chief architect of Netscape to restart his browser to see if that fix the problem

0:10.2

Who got the truth?

0:13.2

Is it you, is it you, is it you?

0:15.2

Who got the truth now?

0:18.2

Is it you, is it you, is it you?

0:20.2

Sit me down, say it straight, another story on the way

0:25.2

Who got the truth?

0:27.2

Welcome to this special episode of acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them.

0:34.2

I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund PSL Ventures

0:41.2

And I'm David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor based in San Francisco

0:46.2

And we are your hosts

0:48.2

Today's episode is a mashup between one of the newest things on the internet and the oldest things on the internet

0:56.2

Our guest today is Brendanike CEO of the Brave Browser, an application right at the heart of the rapidly emerging Web 3 World

1:04.2

It is arguably the single largest blockchain based app with over 50 million monthly users

1:10.2

However, Brendan is no new kid on the block, he holds the credential of inventing JavaScript, a source of much joy and also much pain for many of you out there

1:21.2

And Brendan was the chief architect of Netscape and eventually became the CEO of Mozilla, the makers of Firefox

1:28.2

So you're saying 50 million MAUs is nice but Brendan wants this to go a lot higher

1:34.2

It's crypto nice but it's not browser nice

1:36.2

Yet, yet, yes, but it is rapidly growing

1:40.2

We had a wide-ranging conversation with Brendan that you'll hear today that bridged this old world and the new in some really fun ways

1:49.2

This is a great time to tell you about one of our very favorite companies, Crusoe

1:54.2

So Crusoe, as listeners know by now, is a clean compute cloud provider specifically built for AI workloads

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