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When the commercial web was born

I gave this talk twenty years ago today on November 5, 1994.

In case you forgot (or are too young to remember), “normal” people didn’t use the Internet back then.

There was no Facebook, no Google, no eBay, no Amazon …

This is Mark Zuckerberg from a talk he gave in 2013.

Try to forget that he is 21st richest man in the world and that no one in all of history ever got there faster.

If you do that you …

You may not aspire to build a billion dollar company, but you can learn a lot from these guys.

Marc Andreessen – co-inventor of the web browser – interviews Peter Thiel – founder of PayPal and friend of lots …

Amazing video from the System Club archive.

What can you learn from this?

Lesson #1: Invest in Facebook when it’s just some kids coding in a rented house in Palo Alto.

But it you can’t do that, then what?…

“Today, we are all here to discuss what we should do in the next 5 to 10 years.

So, what will Alibaba become in the future?

Since we were working on China Pages, I’ve always said our competitors are not …

Jack Ma paints the vision for his team – 15 years ago

Two minutes and 10 seconds of leadership in action.

“Today, we are all here to discuss what we should do in the next five to ten years…”

Chinese …