Experiences at CompuServe

Internally - Content and Commerce - but the development guys were very cool. Externally - I guess the Tesco team were pretty good - the first team that developed the online grocery service that everyone does nowadays.

Back then MP3 was new - I only ripped my first CD in 98 so there was no music.

The owners H and R Block - they didn't 'get' the web in 1996 and sold out to AOL......

Usual open plan hutches.

Lunch was for whimps back then....

It was all black/black/black.

Having Brent Hobberman of QXL (now he is CEO at LastMinute.com) come to see me and telling me about his new start-up business - and me thinking it was a bit crap!

It was 1996 - the web was all new and we were the leaders.
No one came from anywhere that had web or online experience.
There were no rules.

I was an early user of CompuServe and was, in 1995, fascinated with online shopping.... saw the ad, applied and got the job; initially called Online Shopping Manager.