The Browser Wars: How Netscape Lost to Internet Explorer -- And Changed Tech Forever
Internet History

The Browser Wars: How Netscape Lost to Internet Explorer -- And Changed Tech Forever

Netscape had 90 percent of the browser market in 1995. Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows and crushed them. But Netscape's ...

Reed Hastings' Transparency Quiz: Four Dilemmas That Reveal How Netflix Really Thinks
Netflix

Reed Hastings' Transparency Quiz: Four Dilemmas That Reveal How Netflix Really Thinks

What do you do when sharing financial data with employees could send someone to jail? When telling your team about layoffs means they giv...

Netflix Live 360 Dinners: Where Colleagues Tell You Everything Wrong with You — Over Steak
Netflix

Netflix Live 360 Dinners: Where Colleagues Tell You Everything Wrong with You — Over Steak

Once a year, Netflix teams sit around a dinner table and take turns giving each other brutally honest feedback using the Start, Stop, Con...

How Steve Wozniak Built the Apple I in a Garage for $1,300
Founders

How Steve Wozniak Built the Apple I in a Garage for $1,300

In 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs scraped together $1,300 by selling a VW van and an HP calculator. They built the Apple I circuit bo...

The Stanford Connection: Why So Many Startups Start at One University
Silicon Valley

The Stanford Connection: Why So Many Startups Start at One University

HP, Yahoo, Google, Cisco, Instagram, Snapchat -- the list of companies that started at or near Stanford University is staggering. Frederi...

Netflix Innovation Cycle: Farm for Dissent, Bet Big, and Sunshine Your Failures
Netflix

Netflix Innovation Cycle: Farm for Dissent, Bet Big, and Sunshine Your Failures

Netflix employees are told to think of themselves as entrepreneurs with a stack of chips. Some bets win. Some lose. The only thing that g...

Sand Hill Road: The Most Expensive Street in Venture Capital
Silicon Valley

Sand Hill Road: The Most Expensive Street in Venture Capital

A two-mile stretch of road in Menlo Park, California became the command center for venture capital. Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and...

Lead with Context, Not Control: How Netflix Lets Junior Employees Make Million-Dollar Decisions
Netflix

Lead with Context, Not Control: How Netflix Lets Junior Employees Make Million-Dollar Decisions

When Netflix's documentary director wanted to bid $5 million on an Oscar-winning film, Ted Sarandos didn't approve the deal. He asked one...