Month: July 1998

“All the net worth in the world isn’t worth anything if I’m not happy and don’t like what I’m doing.”

Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang, whose shares in the dull-as-dirt Net directory are worth almost one billion dollars on paper, USA Today, 2 July 1998

“We’re not responsible, but we’re responsive.”

GeoCities CEO Thomas Evans, explaining how his company deserves credit for being swift to duck the blame for the content users put up on its Web pages, Village Voice, 2 July 1998

“I don’t dream of IPO day. Money is not my measure of success. I want my epitaph to read: ‘He made a cultural impact.'”

Editor-in-chief David Talbot, on his high hopes for Salon Magazine’s make-no-waves journalism, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 1998