You Shoulda Been There

EPISODE 15 - Mar. 12th | Murray Hidary & Nova Spicack


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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...

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