Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBrendan Eich: belief
15 Feb 2022 Acquired The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
“I got there in April 1995, on April 3rd I think, and the IPO was sometime in August. It was a huge rocket and it was to me a little bit scandalous because in the '80s SGI had to have three profitable quarters before it could IPO, whereas Netscape just went on forward speculation, forward multiples, and it was not profitable.”
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- Speaker
- Brendan Eich
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Feb 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Okay, did a big crew of those folks leave to go to Netscape or was it you on your own? Jeff Weinstein and I jumped in Netscape within the same week. We're still young and naive. We should have made a company and sold it. We would have gotten four times the options. When we arrived, we saw some other teams doing that, and they weren't as good. I can't complain. It was always the case when you're coming into these systems that you don't know exactly what's going on with the company. I got there in April 1995, on April 3rd I think, and the IPO was sometime in August. It was a huge rocket and it was to me a little bit scandalous because in the '80s SGI had to have three profitable quarters before it could IPO, whereas Netscape just went on forward speculation, forward multiples, and it was not profitable. That was the '90s and that started it all. But there was real revenue there.…
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