Mark Fletcher (businessman)

“Groupthink: Fletcher took listservs mainstream with OneList, a company he founded in 1997. Users turned to OneList to create, administer, and find mailing lists through a simple Web-based interface. By 2000, when Yahoo! bought the company for $420 million to establish Yahoo! Groups, OneList had millions of subscribers and was sending out billions of emails per month”

“I’m not great at CSS and, like many others, find that positioning elements on a web page can range from tedious at best to utterly frustrating at worst. Fortunately, ChatGPT-4 is pretty adept at stuff like this. I'm not saying it’s perfect every time, but usually, I can arrive at an answer after a few iterations.”

“[Memo to Bill Gates:] "Bring it on." [A Microsoft newsreader would expand the market without hurting Bloglines]. They’re a program, we’re a service, like webmail. With us, you’ll be able to read your feeds from anywhere”

“This time, I’m trying to make new mistakes”

“I got to ride the bubble”

“Ask Jeeves will be committing resources to Bloglines to help us build out our service even more and accelerate our product roadmap”