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Pseudo.com

Josh Harris built the first internet streaming network seven years before YouTube — then the bandwidth to watch it did not exist and the money ran out

market collapseSilent Shutdown

Quiet closure with no public announcement · Fatal mistake: Market Timing

Founded	1993
Closed	2000
Country	USA
Sector	Media

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Key Events Timeline

1993-01

FOUNDING

Pseudo.com founded

1996-06

LAYOFF

Market downturn forces cuts

2000-06

SHUTDOWN

Silent Shutdown: Pseudo.com ceases operations

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Analyst plan

Documented cause

Pseudo.com was founded in 1993 by Josh Harris, who would later be the subject of the documentary "We Live in Public." The company produced dozens of channels of live and recorded Internet broadcasts — proto-pod...

casts, talk shows, music programming — years before broadband made streaming viable. Pseudo raised approximately $35M and employed over 200 people at its peak. But in 2000, the average US internet con

Verified lesson

“Internet media businesses have a hard bandwidth constraint. In 1993-2000, the physical infrastructure limit — dial-up sp...”

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€100M

Peak valuation

HypeCycle · MoatType · ResearchTags

Pseudo.com raised €35M before market timing ended it. See the documented cause, verified lesson and all failure signals.

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Quibi

Media · USA