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Ben Gilbert: commitment

27 Jul 2021 Acquired Andreessen Horowitz Part I

“Absolutely. It is very much this let's take something very esoteric, make it very available to everyone, and then we will figure it out later.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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27 Jul 2021
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Acquired

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…Or help Coinbase. Absolutely. It is very much this let's take something very esoteric, make it very available to everyone, and then we will figure it out later. This is the very first time he runs that playbook. The other counterintuitive thing or going against the grain element of building a mass-market browser for the web was that this was not how most people thought the internet was going to go at the time. At the time, this was in the early ‘90s, people were talking about the information superhighway. Actually, SGI was a big part of this. SGI was working with the cable companies to build these internet-enabled set-top boxes.…

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