“If ever there was a person in the record business equipped to take advantage of the Internet, it was Robin Bechtel.  She was from Texas and everyone knew it.  She wore cowboy boots, spoke in an excitable drawl, favored folksy expressions like “well-behaved women rarely make history” and had a knack for experimenting with radical ideas without going through channels first to get permission.”   - APPETITE FOR SELF DESTRUCTION, BOOK BY STEVE KNOPPER

“Robin’s early websites helped make the web what it is today and showed us all what it could be.”  - THE UNLIKELY PIONEERS OF THE EARLY WEB, THE HISTORY OF THE WEB

“But the strangest and most energetic features of the early web probably came from Robin Bechtel.  Bechtel was working at Capitol Records when a cousin introduced her to the web via the Mosiac browser, complete with embedded, grainy grayscale images and single blobs of text scattered across the page.  It was crude, but Bechtel didn’t care.  She was instantly hooked.”  - THE HISTORY OF THE WEB 

“Creator of one of the world’s first webchats” - WIRED

"The Texas native says she’s a pioneer in spirit but she’s also a pioneer in reality as she has launched many online marketing trends that have spread like wildfire.” - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“Bechtel’s incremental progress with building Capitol’s web presence throughout the ’90s illustrates just how slow record labels were to reckon with the most revolutionary technology to affect the industry since the invention of the phonograph. Bechtel’s early wins in the digital realm seem modest now: In the mid-’90s, she developed a screensaver for the Beastie Boys. Then she oversaw the launch of a website for the heavy metal group Megadeth, the first for a Capitol act. Then she made Duran Duran the label’s first band to debut a single online.

For (Radiohead’s) Kid A, Bechtel aimed for another first: She wanted to stream the entire record on the Internet weeks before it was released.”- GRANTLAND