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Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011
Like most of us, I Skype, email, message, and text daily. My friends and I around the world use all these methods to keep in touch, and for whatever reason, when communicating via these channels we get a bit crazy. If you looked up some of our Skype chat histories or email exchanges you’d consider us fit for a psych ward.
It seems chatting via the above methods loosens our inhibitions. And it is also extremely fun. One person sends an r-rated email out to five or six people, then an hour later you have 30 emails in your inbox with hilarious – albeit ridiculously childish – responses. It happens fast and it is all very reckless.
Posted on Monday, September 19, 2011
The numbers will tell you it is still about search. Though you’d think it were about mobile, cars that drive themselves, web TV, social media, operating systems, online shopping, academia, and on and on.
It was a university research project well before it was a company. Back then, in 1996, eventual Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were PhD students at Stanford University, working hard to challenge and improve upon conventional search engine thinking. They succeeded, and a couple of years later Google was born.
Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011
It will take some time before the effects of Steve Jobs’ departure hit Apple. The company is, after all, coasting right now. The existing products will carry it through for possibly years to come as it taps into the huge Asian markets and continues to dominate in markets where it is already strong.
But to be clear, it will not last. Apple’s success has always been about Jobs.
Flashback to 1997 when Apple was drowning – plagued by crippling financial losses and a record-low stock price. This was the year Steve Jobs would return to the company he founded in 1977 and was essentially fired from in 1985 following a bitter dispute.
Posted on Saturday, December 11, 2010
Was that five years already? Two World Cups, a Great Recession, Facebook’s launch to insane heights, and so on and so on and so on.
The years really do fly by. It was back in 2005 when Patrick, Juan, and I met by chance, and coincidentally, all three of us had the same strong desire to start a business at that point in our lives. The chemistry was always right at Threeview, and as we started taking on our first team members late in 2006 it just kept getting better.
