Exodus Communications

And a lot of people say, "Oh, it's nothing like that," but he explains it here.

Exodus Communications went bankrupt in 2001 because its customers ran out of money, and CoreWeave is carrying the same risk today.

Great work by Roger lining the two companies up side by side.

Many people forgot or didn't even know about Exodus.

Why? Because people were overly, uh, you know, ir- irrational in their valuations, uh, and they were expanding, you know, da- data centers like crazy.

In fact, you know, I ended up with stock in a company called Exodus Communications.

They were the number one web hosting company in the world.

Most people don't remember Exodus now.

The acquisition of his venture by Novell highlighted the potential for infrastructure companies during the networking boom.

Reki subsequently invested in internet infrastructure businesses like Exodus Communications, demonstrating how early-stage backing can fuel secondary market growth.

In the cybersecurity domain, Jay Chaudhry founded Securite in 1996 before shifting to cloud security with Zscaler.

As enterprises moved data online, traditional office-based protection models became obsolete.

He says that he became an early, I say he, his about page that is written in the third person, but presumably is written at least in part by him.

He became an early internet technology journalist, a cybersecurity expert, and co-founded a division of Exodus Communications, a company that seeded the internet we know today.

He also says that he's the widely recognized father of biohacking.

And that in 1999, when he was 26 years old, he'd made $6 million working in tech and had lost it all two years later.