Ep. 8 - Lewis Gersh, in partnership with AOL, founded Worldy Information Network in 1998 focusing on investor info publishing during the height of the DOTCOM boom.

Episode Timeline

4:25 What are you doing now?

5:00 My first JV with Omnicom and Organic

6:05 Entrepreneur "Reverse Commuters"

6:35 Talk about the "AOL Thing"

8:20 We had 24,000 SKUs of Japanese Animé

10:00 How did you find Organic

12:00 The traffic must have been enormous!

14:55 Mitsui had backed AOL

18:15 We were sharing space with Organic in Chelsea

22:15 Getting people to understand the power being inside AOL

25:20 We've come full circle... it's now Facebook

29:00 We need to talk about "Yo-Yos"

32:25 What did you do that really was new territory?

34:40 Remember when HTML banners came out?!

37:55 One the best banner ads I remember

40:20 We had 2 T1's... in MANHATTAN!

43:10 What was it like investing in the post-Dotcom-Bubble environment?

43:34 Bubble 1.0

46:55 People were talking about Web 2.0

50:10 Lewis has gone mad. I'm sure Lewis has gone mad!

53:00 Take us into the future... What is phase 4.0?