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Albert Wenger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
477 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

And the second question is around organizational structure, where I talk a lot about the emergence of a network model within an organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

And then the third is about the flows of information, which is what are the patterns of information exchange

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

will things become more interactive?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

And it certainly, again, I'm not suggesting I had some crystal ball, but I think directionally, some of the things I wrote about in that thesis, which I finished in 1999, I think have held up very well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

Well, no, he, um, he wasn't thinking about Delicious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

Joshua had written Delicious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

It was a fully up and running service while he was still an employee at Morgan Stanley.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

Um, it was a side project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

He had started getting interest from VCs, including from Brad Burnham and Fred Wilson, who had started Unisquare Ventures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

Uh, and, um, so I obviously knew both Brad and Fred very well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

And through them, I met with Joshua.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

So Brad, so I had an incubator, um, from actually from 99 to 2000, very, very short lived.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

And Brad was one of the investors and directors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

And, um, uh, of course, and in New York, everybody knew Fred.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

Um, so Fred knew everybody.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

And in fact, Brad and I tried to raise a fund together after the dot-com bubble burst, and we couldn't get it done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital

And so he had to buy his time a little bit.