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Article: GLASER SEES POTENTIAL - THEN COMES THE PRODUCT.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 19, 1996
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Progressive Networks founder Rob Glaser arrived in the Northwest fresh from Yale University, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and a bachelor's degree in computer science - all in 1983.
He spent the next 11 years at Microsoft, a period when annual sales grew from $50 million to more than $4 billion. When he left in mid-1993 he was vice president for multimedia and consumer systems. After that he did some consulting work for Microsoft and Chairman Bill Gates on a variety of issues, including Internet strategy.
Glaser says his own Internet epiphany occurred in 1993 when he saw the Mosaic browser. He says he realized then how ...