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a company was only a company archive/abolish-silicon-valley

The companies they worked for created wombs in which all their creature-comfort needs could be satisfied. It seemed great at the time they started their employment, but three or four years later [...] began to understand that a career was just a career, and a company was only a company, not a lifet…

—p.131 Down and Out in Silicon Valley The Quality of Personal Life in Silicon Valley (123) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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unhappiness is not a sign of individual failure

[...] they were feeling depressed; while the stock market soared, their souls were plummeting. They were unhappy, but the media was telling them that the size of their bank accounts and the prestigious jobs they held qualified them to be exceptionally happy. They were feeling guilty because they "s…

—p.126 The Quality of Personal Life in Silicon Valley (123) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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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 The Dot-Com Firestorm (103) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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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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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