Brendan Eich, founder of Brave and creator of JavaScript, joined the show to talk about the history of the web, how it has been funded, and the backstory on the early browser wars and emerging monetization models. We also talked about why big problems are hard to solve for the Internet and the tradeoffs between centralization and distribution.

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Featuring:

• Brendan Eich – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

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