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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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5 years, 10 months ago

we're going to become billionaires

In the warp speed time of less than two years the tangible sixty-million-dollar investment turned into congealed snow. As the film documents their business descent into oblivion, the two entrepreneurs are shown in psychologically naked disarray, in contrast to their euphoric beginning. When their s…

—p.112 Down and Out in Silicon Valley The Dot-Com Firestorm (103) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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5 years, 10 months ago

they hadn't yet become millionaires at the age of twenty-eight

[...] Kaleil had just quit his high paying job at the prestigious Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs. But he and Tom felt "ordinary" because they hadn't yet become millionaires at the age of twenty-eight. They had an idea they thought was the key to fame and fortune: they would establish a Web site …

—p.111 The Dot-Com Firestorm (103) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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5 years, 10 months ago

they hadn't yet become millionaires at the age of twenty-eight

[...] Kaleil had just quit his high paying job at the prestigious Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs. But he and Tom felt "ordinary" because they hadn't yet become millionaires at the age of twenty-eight. They had an idea they thought was the key to fame and fortune: they would establish a Web site …

—p.111 The Dot-Com Firestorm (103) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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do they have a private jet?

Not far away, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is building a $40 million-plus replica of the Japanese Katsura palace on 23 wooded acres. Presumably, he'll be parking his new Marchetti Italian jet fighter elsewhere - perhaps next to the aerobatic plane he just bought as an eighth-grade graduation gift for h…

—p.56 The Media Hype That Hides the Cold Reality of Silicon Valley (47) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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we all work as owners of the company

[...] Workers and bosses? Those were twentieth-century phrases, according to the CEOs. They were outmoded, old-fashioned, irrelevant concepts. Their new mantra was: "We're all equal, we're all a team, we all work as owners of the company because we all have stock options. So unions are passé, since…

—p.23 Silicon Valley Then and Now (15) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler