“We are teaching the CEOs at all our companies how to be thrifty right now.”
Jim Dorrian of Crosspoint Venture Partners, on his firm’s attempts to recycle its portfolio companies, Washington Post, 27 March 2001
Month: March 2001
IN MY SPARE TIME, I LIKE TO SIT AT THE SEASHORE
“I’m not going to accept the argument that there is some way to get around [the Internet gambling ban]. And even if that is the case, then people will always find a way to get around it.”
Australian Communications Minister Richard Alston, on an Internet gambling ban that even he admits might be pointless because of the ease of hiding IP addresses, Australian IT, 28 March 2001
I NEVER GOT INTO TECHNO
“Our audience has become an incredibly wired, techno-literate audience whose fundamental approach to entertainment has changed.”
MTVi CEO Nicholas Butterworth, on the fundamental differences between Napster users who download songs for free and MTV viewers who watch music videos for free, News.com, 27 March 2001
TEETHING PAINS
“If it didn’t have problems at the beginning, it wouldn’t be great technology.”
Lesswire AG employee Ulrich Woessner, insisting that a failed demo of the Bluetooth wireless technology is actually proof of future coolness, Wired News, 26 March 2001
TIMING IS EVERYTHING
“This is a perfect time to start a dot-com.”
Laugh.com founder Bob Kohn, on the early April Fool’s joke he’s pulling on investors, News.com, 23 March 2001
GENERATION X-ML?
“The phones that people have today are not the phones that people will want to use in the XML generation.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, inventing an implausible demographic for his company’s software products, CNN.com, 22 March 2001
WE PUT THE SHOPPING CART BEFORE THE HORSE
“What you typically do is perfect the store and once you perfect it, you start rolling it out. In this case we rolled it out and we perfected it later.”
Kozmo CEO Gerry Burdo, on the company’s retrenchment from its original nationwide ambitions, News.com, 21 March 2001
