“Valley of the Boom”: Loved It

Have you seen the 6-part miniseries from National Geographic called “The Valley of the Boom“? Very well done (I don’t know why the ratings on Metacritic aren’t higher). Brought back lots of memories from the mid-90s when I earned my stripes as the “Internet guy” in Corp Fin.

It’s the most entertaining thing I’ve seen on the Internet boom. A mix of a documentary and a reenactment of how things played out at Netscape, TheGlobe.com (which was Facebook before Facebook) and a scam artist who actually had high quality video streaming before anyone else. The documentary part has remarks from those who were at Netscape & Microsoft (remember the “browser wars”?), as well as commentary from celebrities like Mark Cuban and Arianna Huffington…