Early internet portal cited as a false start despite being a confident early leader.
“Molly O'Shea cited Zander Bracha, whom she called "one of the best enterprise software investors in the last two decades," as someone who came from a consumer internet background at Yahoo”
Source→“The internet era produced AOL, Yahoo, and Pointcast before it produced Google. The mobile era produced WAP and Nokia before it produced the iPhone. Every platform transition has false starts, confident predictions that age terribly, and a long stretch of genuine uncertainty before the real picture emerges.”
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