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Oct 17, 2026
Nick SwinmurnGUEST
And then from there was introduced to the internet.
Nick SwinmurnGUEST
Went to a company, AutoWeb.com, um, that was like a dozen people at the time.
Nick SwinmurnGUEST
I had never even used much of the internet at that point.
Nick SwinmurnGUEST
Um, but it was just totally different.
Nick SwinmurnGUEST
Um, and so I ended up leaving there after 11 months, just committed to, "If these guys can do it, I'm-- I can do it." And I had a couple of ideas and said, "I'm gonna, I'm gonna pursue those." So that, that was-
BenHOST
So how, how did you land on the idea of Zappos?
Nick SwinmurnGUEST
So I was-- AutoWeb was basically a, you know...
Nick SwinmurnGUEST
And a-again, this is like the late '90s, so everything that seems so obvious now, at the time it wasn't.
Payam ZamaniGUEST
Back then it was about people who had a passion to do something, you build something.
Payam ZamaniGUEST
And, uh, when I was incorporating AutoWeb, it was on the day that Netscape had gone public in 1995.
Payam ZamaniGUEST
And for those of you who don't know Netscape, that was the browser to use.
Payam ZamaniGUEST
It wasn't Safari, it wasn't Chrome of, uh, or Firefox, it was, uh, Net- uh, Netscape, the first ever browser.
Bryan BeesonGUEST
and then upload all of that information to whatever site they wanted.
Bryan BeesonGUEST
At the time, it was cars.com, Autobytel, of course.
Bryan BeesonGUEST
And then that was kind of right when eBay Motors had kicked off, so...
Bryan BeesonGUEST
We were big in, you know, adding all of the dealership inventory to eBay Motors.