A Tale Of Four Startups
summary
Covers four startups: an interactive-TV venture that dies in the 2001 dot‑com bust after building set‑top demos and chasing a BT video‑over‑IP RFP; a tiny self‑funded consultancy that wins an SMS‑to‑screen deal and forces a minimum income guarantee and escrow to get paid; an MP3 download service holding 100 TB of unprotected masters and 25 TB of mp3s while shipping catalogs on hard drives; and a VC‑backed secure document company that adopts CI/TDD and microservices but is later sold and exposes the drag clause risk to options.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 1:07Startup 1
- 6:09Not a startup
- 11:34The end... the 2001 dot com bust
- 16:25Startup 2
- 16:52Formation
- 25:20Legacy
- 30:27Startup 3
- 34:17Client base
- 42:20Startup credentials
- 49:32Takeaways
