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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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00:00:52] MARK: Sure. My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. MARK] I started comp sci. MARK] The thing is, it was 1991 and it was a terrible recession. In a way, I think I was unfortunate to get a job because I really did have these entrepreneurial skills.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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And so it goes with social networking. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.