1: The summer of 1995 was a dizzying time for the people working at Netscape.

In August of that year, the company went public.

“The Netscape initial public offering (IPO) was both spectacular and historic,” Ben Horowitz writes in The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers.

“The stock initially priced at $14 per share, but a last-minute decision doubled the … continue reading