Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. I think I’ve got an ambitious person here with me today. I’ve seen so many interesting things that he’s said over the years about ambition, about wanting to build something big. Frankly, I’ve watched him over the years do it and I’ve read about him over the years and I’m so lucky to have him here today.
So, the reason that we had him here, that my team put together this interview is because Keith Teare is the cofounder of TechCrunch and we wanted to find out how TechCrunch was built and so on. But of course, once I saw his name and I saw his history, I remember him from RealNames. And for me, RealNames stuck out as a company that was going to ruin the internet or make it great, but it was such a gutsy move either way.
The idea was no one wants to have these long URLs that were really complicated back...