Christine Haughney
Editor at Large at Inc.
Creator Netflix's Emmy nom. #rotten #computerfreaks #poisoned James Beard award winner. Inc. Editor at Large. Ex NBC, Boston Globe, NYT, WSJ, Washington Post
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2 weeks ago |
inc.com | Christine Haughney
It’s hard to remember a time when Google was not generating billions of dollars in revenue, mainly from advertising. But in the late 1990s, Google was just another startup with a search engine that had no real plan to become profitable. The person who dreamed up its highly profitable advertising model was a bespectacled entrepreneur named Bill Gross.
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3 weeks ago |
inc.com | Christine Haughney
Given our world today, it might seem like Jeff Bezos was the first and only entrepreneur who created e-commerce. However, just as Amazon has swallowed up so much of the world of online shopping, it has also erased nearly every other entrepreneur from early e-commerce history. When 31-year-old Bezos officially opened his online bookstore on July 16, 1995, he was relatively late to the game.
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4 weeks ago |
inc.com | Christine Haughney
Frat parties, office pranks, and the opportunity to build a once-in-a-lifetime browser drew them to the company. BY CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY DARE-BRYAN, EDITOR-AT-LARGE @CHAUGHNEYMAR 27, 2025Illustration: James MarshallFor nearly three decades, Netscape Communications was the tech startup fairytale of Silicon Valley. Computer geeks, fresh from college and sugared up on Mountain Dew and Skittles, flocked to the company in 1994 to create a browser that would democratize the internet.
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1 month ago |
inc.com | Christine Haughney
Marc Andreessen has been courting fame since the 1990s with his launch of the Netscape browser. That made him a multimillionaire by his 25th birthday and landed him on the cover of Time magazine under the headline “Golden Geeks.” His ensuing Silicon Valley venture capital career has propelled him to billionaire status.
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1 month ago |
inc.com | Christine Haughney
In 2023, Inc. launched Computer Freaks, a podcast that explored the early days of the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet. My father, U.S. Air Force major Joseph Haughney, ran the Arpanet for the Department of Defense from 1979 to 1981. When, in 2022, he learned he had dementia, I gathered over 100 hours of audio interviews with him and other early founders about what the internet’s creators dreamed of for this fledgling technology.
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