Episode 1905 • • 1:17:03 - 1:22:35
1905: Nerdballs
Adam Curry’s Dot-Com Era Success and Ask Jeeves Investment
Adam Curry recounts his financial history during the late 90s and early 2000s, including a $50,000 seed investment in Ask Jeeves that briefly ballooned to $65 million. He describes "burning money in the air" by flying helicopters and building a data center in Amsterdam. Despite the eventual market crash, Curry expresses no regrets about his "punk rock" approach to the dot-com era and his subsequent transition into podcasting.