Nobody Remembers the Second Founder
Founders

Nobody Remembers the Second Founder

Marc Randolph co-founded Netflix. Martin Eberhard co-founded Tesla. Ed Ho co-founded X.com. Most people cannot name any of them.

How Netflix Killed Its Own DVD Business to Become a Streaming Giant
Netflix

How Netflix Killed Its Own DVD Business to Become a Streaming Giant

Netflix named itself Net-flix, not DVD-by-mail-flix, because it always planned to stream. The story of how Reed Hastings cannibalized a p...

AOL and the CD-ROM That Connected America to the Internet
Internet History

AOL and the CD-ROM That Connected America to the Internet

AOL mailed 600 million free CDs, grew to 26.7 million subscribers, bought Netscape for $4.2 billion, then merged with Time Warner in a $1...

Netflix Opens the Books: Why Reed Hastings Shares Everything with Every Employee
Netflix

Netflix Opens the Books: Why Reed Hastings Shares Everything with Every Employee

At Netflix, there are no locked offices, no secret financials, and no information hierarchy. Reed Hastings once sent an unfinished book c...

GeoCities: How Millions of People Built Their First Website for Free
Internet History

GeoCities: How Millions of People Built Their First Website for Free

GeoCities gave 38 million people their first taste of web publishing. Yahoo bought it for $3.57 billion and then shut it down. The story ...

Netflix Has a Five-Word Expense Policy — And It Works Better Than Your 200-Page Handbook
Netflix

Netflix Has a Five-Word Expense Policy — And It Works Better Than Your 200-Page Handbook

Netflix's entire travel and expense policy is five words: Act in Netflix's best interest. No approval chains, no purchase orders. A junio...

Jim Clark: The Man Who Funded Netscape and Built Three Billion-Dollar Companies
Silicon Valley

Jim Clark: The Man Who Funded Netscape and Built Three Billion-Dollar Companies

Jim Clark founded Silicon Graphics, then Netscape, then Healtheon. He was the first person in history to build three separate billion-dol...

How Netflix Culture Almost Failed in Japan, Brazil, and the Netherlands
Netflix

How Netflix Culture Almost Failed in Japan, Brazil, and the Netherlands

When Netflix launched in 130 countries in one day, its famous Freedom and Responsibility culture collided with the real world. Here is ho...