John Collison
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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Interesting.
Okay, so just at that time it wasn't actually clear that the open internet would win.
Yes.
Should one reflect on the fact that we're not going to be able to
Uh maybe there was some motivated thinking.
Around our proprietary solution, you know, the Liberty Media Microsoft joint venture will win, whereas the open web is what won.
And you should maybe caution organizations where if they're following two possibilities, you know, our information superhighway proprietary system or the open web, companies will somehow have
Happy thinking towards the proprietary solution.
Well, I want to talk about that and I want to talk about comrades, but actually first, while we're on the topic of while we're still in the 90s, um everyone is making comparisons to the dot com bubble right now.
It's almost a cliche.
And I think it's actually a reasonable comparison, you know, it's cliche for a reason, which is it is a very capex intensive build-out for a new paradigm that is in fact a big deal, and yet there's an awful lot of capex.
You were there, uh at Microsoft uh during the uh the two thousand dot com bubble.
And it really was uh, you know, Microsoft's share price peaked in the late nineties, early two thousands, and then didn't surpass it until twenty sixteen, I wanna say.
Um what did it feel like in nineteen ninety nine?
Uh in particular, did you know you were in a bubble or was it like, oh, this is the new uh this time it's different?
It's interesting, yeah.
On PowerShells.
I haven't heard that comparison before, which is let's not forget that the dot com bubble, which again was a telecoms bubble, was a fiber bubble uh uh in a big way.
Like it was dark fiber.
It was the clues in the name, it was dark, it was not lit up yet.
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