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Mentions personal use of Thunderbird.

27 Jul 2021 Acquired Andreessen Horowitz Part I

“I used to use Thunderbird. I thought it was great.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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27 Jul 2021
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Acquired

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…Honestly though, after the financial crash and all the funding, it's not crazy to call it a Firefox, a phoenix, or whatever in founding a venture firm in 2009 and deploying capital the way they did. I'm jumping ahead. I know we'll get there. Absolutely. If you want to be really nerdy, you could call it the Thunderbird of venture firms. I used to use Thunderbird. I thought it was great. Back to the story, Ben and his server team have realized this market opportunity. They've got this idea for cloud computing, cloud infrastructure. He hooks up with two of his core team, Tim Howes and Sik Rhee. They leave AOL. They go back to Silicon Valley. They're like, we're doing this. It's still 1999. The bubble is still quite inflated at this point. There is a lot of hype. And everyone's drunk. Netscape IPO-ed with great revenues and great growth, but now everyone's just drunk.…

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