Author: Matt

“You’d have to be crazy not to recognize that business and finance are an integral part of the Internet, of the Wired culture.”

Wired editor-in-chief Katrina Heron, coming to the realization a few years too late that there’s gold in them thar TCP/IP stacks, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 1999

“The real losers are likely to be the citizens of Portland and Multnomah County. This decision can only have the potential to delay and reduce the new services that companies like AT&T will be able to offer them.”

Mark Rosenblum, AT&T’s VP of law, managing to insult his customer base in threatening to take his company’s broadband network and go home, News.com, 4 June 1999

“For however long it lasts, all companies … that have businesses are worthless against an Internet piece of paper.”

Barry Diller, on how the day-trader fueled valuations of Internet stocks make it difficult for him to snap up Net companies on the cheap, News.com, 3 June 1999

“Really, if you look at the full range of personal financial services, everything out there is a target for us.”

Lisa Nash, ETrade’s vice president of customer management, on how she’s going to manage to steal customers away from banks, not just full-service brokers, San Jose Mercury News, 2 June 1999

“Students tell me they don’t want in 40 years to be talking to their grandchildren about how the new economy took off and they were sitting on the sideline.”

Harvard professor Tom Eisenmann, on the dot-com crusade his newly minted MBAs are undertaking in record numbers, Wired News, 1 June 1999