Founders at Work

by Livingston, Jessica

• ISBN13: 9781430210788
• ISBN10: 1430210788
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-24
• Publisher: Apress

Summary

Founders at Work is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businesses do-create value-more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
About the Author	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Max Levchin: PayPal	p. 1
Sabeer Bhatia: Hotmail	p. 17
Steve Wozniak: Apple Computer	p. 31
Joe Kraus: Excite	p. 61
Dan Bricklin: Software Arts	p. 73
Mitchell Kapor: Lotus Development	p. 89
Ray Ozzie: Iris Associates, Groove Networks	p. 103
Evan Williams: Pyra Labs (Blogger.com)	p. 111
Tim Brady: Yahoo	p. 127
Mike Lazaridis: Research In Motion	p. 141
Arthur van Hoff: Marimba	p. 153
Paul Buchheit: Gmai	p. 161
Steve Perlman: Web TV	p. 173
Mike Ramsay: TiVo	p. 191
Paul Graham: Viaweb	p. 205
Joshua Schachter: del.icio.us	p. 223
Mark Fletcher: ONElist, Bloglines	p. 233
Craig Newmark: craigslist	p. 247
Caterina Fake: Flickr	p. 257
Brewster Kahle: WAIS, Internet Archive, Alexa Internet	p. 265
Charles Geschke: Adobe Systems	p. 281
Ann Winblad: Open Systems, Hummer Winblad	p. 297
David Heinemeier Hansson: 37signals	p. 309
Philip Greenspun: ArsDigita	p. 317
Joel Spolsky: Fog Creek Software	p. 345
Stephen Kaufer: TripAdvisor	p. 361
James Hong: Hot or Not	p. 377
James Currier: Tickle	p. 387
Blake Ross: Firefox	p. 395
Mena Trott: Six Apart	p. 405
Bob Davis: Lycos	p. 419
Ron Gruner: Alliant Computer Systems, Shareholder.com	p. 427
Jessica Livingston: Y Combinator	p. 447
Index	p. 455
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