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home » » The only reason Prodigy had a billing system, this is really interesting, was that the original business model assumed…IBM, Sears, and CBS was originally Trintex. CBS got out early, to the point where Mel Karmizan, when we talked about him buying About.com, pre my IPO of About, I said, “You know you owned a piece of an online service once.” This was where corporations have no memory, so Mel is CEO of CBS. He goes, “We did?” I go, “Yeah, like you owned a third of it.” But they got out, and it was IBM and Sear

The only reason Prodigy had a billing system, this is really interesting, was that the original business model assumed…IBM, Sears, and CBS was originally Trintex. CBS got out early, to the point where Mel Karmizan, when we talked about him buying About.com, pre my IPO of About, I said, “You know you owned a piece of an online service once.” This was where corporations have no memory, so Mel is CEO of CBS. He goes, “We did?” I go, “Yeah, like you owned a third of it.” But they got out, and it was IBM and Sear

The only reason Prodigy had a billing system, this is really interesting, was that the original business model assumed…IBM, Sears, and CBS was originally Trintex. CBS got out early, to the point where Mel Karmizan, when we talked about him buying About.com, pre my IPO of About, I said, “You know you owned a piece of an online service once.” This was where corporations have no memory, so Mel is CEO of CBS. He goes, “We did?” I go, “Yeah, like you owned a third of it.” But they got out, and it was IBM and Sears

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