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EPISODE 8 - Jan. 22nd. | Lewis Gersh
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Ep. 8 - Lewis Gersh, in partnership with AOL, founded Worldy Information Network in 1998 focusing on investor info publishing during the height of the DOTCOM boom.
Episode Timeline
4:25 What are you doing now?
5:00 My first JV with Omnicom and Organic
6:05 Entrepreneur "Reverse Commuters"
6:35 Talk about the "AOL Thing"
8:20 We had 24,000 SKUs of Japanese Animé
10:00 How did you find Organic
12:00 The traffic must have been enormous!
14:55 Mitsui had backed AOL
18:15 We were sharing space with Organic in Chelsea
22:15 Getting people to understand the power being inside AOL
25:20 We've come full circle... it's now Facebook
29:00 We need to talk about "Yo-Yos"
32:25 What did you do that really was new territory?
34:40 Remember when HTML banners came out?!
37:55 One the best banner ads I remember
40:20 We had 2 T1's... in MANHATTAN!
43:10 What was it like investing in the post-Dotcom-Bubble environment?
43:34 Bubble 1.0
46:55 People were talking about Web 2.0
50:10 Lewis has gone mad. I'm sure Lewis has gone mad!
53:00 Take us into the future... What is phase 4.0?
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