028. Pivotal Offsite

“The Internet can best be described as a ‘mania’.” —Bill Gates introduction at the Internet Offsite, April 5, 1994.

There was no shortage of energy around the internet. It was clear that a bunch of stuff would happen. Turning that energy into something resembling a strategy was an open question. For all the excitement, each group seemed to have its own way of defining the Internet, or its own view of how it could subsume the Internet into existing products. Convening…