Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
28 Oct 2024 Acquired Meta
“Actually legend has it, I think in Steven Levy’s book, while they’re talking about this, Sean Parker actually comes up with a name for the product.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 28 Oct 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Meta
Transcript context
…Okay. What’s Wirehog? What’s the second project that’s going on here? I really would love to know what Sean thought when Mark and the crew told them about Wirehog. Wirehog was basically going to be a captive Napster to Facebook. Everybody on Facebook in these private network’s walled gardens, what is something that college students really, really wanted to do and was happening internally on college service all the time? Share files, share music, share movies. Wirehog was going to be a product to make this happen. Actually legend has it, I think in Steven Levy’s book, while they’re talking about this, Sean Parker actually comes up with a name for the product. It is like, oh, if you launch this, you should actually call it Dropbox. No way.…
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