Tony’s first startup, LinkExchange (1996-1999) was where @Alfred_Lin, @apartovi, and Scott Banister all started their tech careers. A young Mike Moritz was their VC. @mlevchin was their intern. LinkExchange was bought by Microsoft and managed by @satyanadella.
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Tony and his brilliant team of twenty-something-year-olds were early pioneers of Web advertising (banner ads, keyword auctions) well before DoubleClick, Google AdWords, etc. This is an important part of Tony’s legacy which shouldn’t be forgotten with his death.
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Photo of Tony in 1994 at the ACM World computer programming competition. The Harvard team won the world championship the prior year, 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Collegiate_Programming_Contest …pic.twitter.com/0TnDUp01L6
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He retired from Zappos very early. I wonder if it was cancer.
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Oh, Hadi, I am so sorry for this tragic loss. Too soon
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I called Zappos a couple days ago to show my team if they can give wow service selling shoes then we can selling houses. I forgot I did the same thing months ago until I took the screenshot. I've never bought shoes online but what he built has always impressed and inspired me.pic.twitter.com/ZZxrD91NgT
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Yeah the good old LinkExchange Days!
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