Anil Dash
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126 appearances
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
Anil Dash’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So almost everything everybody was assuming was going to be open source was going to be sort of cloned and copied.
I think the only thing that kind of has that feeling these days is maybe like MCP.
where people are building things that are kind of interoperable between each other.
And when we say blogs, it sounds very sort of retrograde, but it is a superset of everything we consider social media today.
So everything that would be Instagram and everything that would be TikTok and everything that would be WordPress, but all those things together would all be under this heading.
And also when people were building a fundamental component, yeah, it could be Markdown, but also somebody might be inventing podcasting.
Right.
At this time.
And somebody might be, you know, inventing like, so fundamental formats were things that an individual person was capable of creating in a way that would spread that now to what, like a billion users.
Right.
So like the kinds of things that are sort of raw.
So, so that thing that like a guy and, you know, John's a remarkable guy, but like a guy can make a thing.
And then you could imagine, like, I think we could extrapolate maybe
millions of people might use it i don't think we'd be like a billion people are going to use this but but yeah but you couldn't it wasn't ridiculous at all to be like i might make a thing and a couple million people might use it and so like that's so unfathomable i think in the current era but it was intuitive at that sense that that might you know at that stage that that might happen so i think that was that was such a addictive you know feeling when you're creating yeah
So we did Stack Overflow.
I knew the founding team, and I was on the board.
And Stack launched in 08, I think.
And it was controversial that it supported Markdown.
Because there was a really strong argument, and I think Jeff Atwood, one of the co-founders, had been like, we should do Markdown so they can do fancy formatted answers on... Stack Overflow is the most popular community for coders to answer each other's questions.
They're all coders, right?
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