(Bonus) Joshua Schachter And The del.icio.us Story
Oct 24, 2020
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Joshua Schachter, the founder of del.icio.us and a key figure in Web 2.0, shares his journey from creating one of the first social bookmarking sites to becoming a successful angel investor. He reflects on the early web, discussing the challenges of content creation and user engagement. The conversation dives into the evolution of social sharing and the impact of venture capital on media platforms. Schachter also addresses the hurdles of startup life, including data privacy and tech transformations that shaped the modern internet.
Joshua Schachter is mostly known these days as a prominent angel investor, but his claim to fame is as the founder of del.icio.us, one of THE sites and startups that convinced me and a lot of other people that the internet space wasn’t dead, in the wake of the dotcom bubble. So, consider this in the spirt of the longreads. A profile of a key startup and entrepreneur, that got the web and the world to where we are today.