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An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman About Apple and AI

The Untold Story of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback

We didn't sell that many units the first Christmas. We were too high-priced. We were $329 when it came out, and the lesson learned there is that you don't charge both a high price and a subscription fee. Just one or the other, right? When we repriced WebTV at $99, then we sold a lot of them.

Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

David Bruce Goldberg (October 2, 1967 – May 1, 2015) was an American management consultant and businessman. He was the founder of LAUNCH Media and the CEO of SurveyMonkey. He was married to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook.

Sriram Krishnan • Dave Goldberg on music Music

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Nick Bilton • Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

Palm, on the other hand, regrouped. It surveyed Zoomer buyers to find out what they liked and didn’t like, what they used and didn’t use: What these people said opened the company’s eyes. More than 90% of Zoomer owners also owned a PC. More than half of them bought Zoomer because of software (offered as an add-on) that transferred data to and from

David S. Evans • Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries

Gates was famous for promising to deliver software to computer manufacturers well before Microsoft had even designed it. In 1983, Valley venture capitalist Ann Winblad put a name on it: vaporware.

Margaret O'Mara • The Code

The developer day and how the store was introduced was in inflection moment of Altman pushing too far, too fast. My bet: He’ll have a new company up by Monday.

Kara Swisher • Tweet

The story was told by former Amazon engineer Steve Yegge in a post that he wrote for colleagues at Google, but which ended up being accidentally made public and went viral among Internet developers. It is known as “Stevey’s Platform Rant.”