“Everything used to be so simple. You’d just deploy your field sales model and force your customers to buy through it.”
Tom Siebel, CEO of the eponymous sales software firm, distinguishing the old way of selling from the new way, where you just deploy your website and force your customers to buy through it, eWeek, 15 March 2001
“I think we need to take this opportunity to be a bit more visionary.”
World Online CEO Jim Kinsella, on the need for plausible deniability in today’s market, CBS MarketWatch, 14 March 2001
“What we’re doing is getting our burn rate and business plan more in line with the more sober economic environment.”
Eazel marketroid Brian Croll, on the open-source interface company’s cold-shower-and-coffee headcount reduction, News.com, 13 March 2001
“We’re now in a cycle of demanded innovations. When profits are down and there is no money, you have to innovate to stay in business.”
Standard Media CEO John Battelle, passing the virtual hat at SXSW in Austin, Wired News, 12 March 2001
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