Murray and Nova (along with Jack Hidary) were Co-Founders of EarthWeb, one of the first Internet companies in the world.

Episode Timeline

3:20 Good news is, I'm employed. Bad news... I'm STILL employed.

4:35 It starts with Jack and Murray.

6:15 Let's put relief agencies on the Internet

8:10 Hatched this idea called ReliefNet

10:40 Murray was a very active playboy

13:20 We started getting calls from ad agencies

16:00 We had one desk for six people!

18:25 "How did you even get a meeting with me?!" CTO, of The Met

20:45 Earthweb became the preeminent Web development shop

23:15 Article in Wired: 'High-Brow HTML House'

24:50 The "Jerry Yang" episode

28:40 Talk about the Innovations...

34:30 I remember sitting with Eric Schmidt...

38:00 Went from $3mm in revenue to $60mm in a year and a half

41:55 You gotta remember, I'm a music major.

44:55 Before Tesla became a household name...

46:30 Everything I know about business, I learned from Jack and Murray

49:30 We crash-landed Wikipedia on the moon...

51:20 More importantly for me is the human side of it...

Kate founded {meta} Marketer in 1999, developed Toshiba America‘s first intranet, is the author of 4 books including her latest, “Tech Humanist” (which was featured at CES 2019), and was recently named to the 2020 Thinkers50 Radar, a global ranking of management thinkers.

Episode Timeline

6:00 And so it begins...

8:45 I got indoctrinated into MUDs

11:00 I remember getting tingles on the back of my neck!

14:05 What made you want to be a part of the Internet?

16:00 Toshiba recruited me to come to San Francisco

19:15 The next interesting pivot was Netflix... this '98

22:15 I was still drive by curiosity about everything!

25:00 "Relevance" was what we were going for

27:15 Relevance is a form of respect

29:00 Discretion is too... Balance how much we know about you

33:00 What got your juices going in those early days?

36:00 You could be a generalist

40:30 Impact of technology on people... The Future of Work

41:45 What have you retained from those early days?

45:25 I just became allergic to mangos!

46:30 You're going to love this...

49:30 I was at Magazines.com leading up customer experience...

52:20 So where are we now?

Andrew has been an advocate for digital literacy and equity from the very early days, focused on education, democracy & civic engagement.

Episode Timeline

3:10 We all look the same... except for the glasses

6:20 How did it all begin?

8:10 Veteran's group had this old theater on Irving Place (...called "Irving Plaza")

11:05 By 1995 we were experimenting with streaming live music

12:55 I realized I needed to be involved with the community

16:10 I walked into this school and saw 3,000 kids and a single computer

17:20 Tech Glitch HOLD PLEASE

18:10 About 200 people showed up on a Saturday... That led to M.O.U.S.E.

23:00 The Record Industry blew it... they could have built iTunes or Spotify

26:25 The technology changes the art

28:10 ...and then the Bubble burst

29:50 I found it more an anthropological moment than a technological one

34:00 I started a conference call the Personal Democracy Forum

37:30 Politicians don't know the difference between a Server and a Waiter

43:00 Non-profits were starting to use these tools

45:15 Lightbulb: The NY Tech community is still highly empathetic

46:00 Micah Sifry and I Co-Founded Civic Hall together

52:05 The tech community is still way too white, way too privileged

59:20 Any chance we'll see you running for Mayor?