“If you look at what other media companies spend, we’re well inside the bell curve.”
Candice Carpenter, CEO of iVillage, giving a one-sided view of her company’s rumored losses, The Industry Standard, 30 November 1998
Author: Matt
In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.
SINKING SHIPS, BURNING BRIDGES
“You are going to put me in the Windows box. I am not going to do shit for you because I am king of the world. You know, I am AT&T.”
Tom Evslin, then-chief of AT&T’s WorldNet Internet access service, attempting to beat his chest at a meeting with his former employer, Microsoft, ZDNN, 30 November 1998
THERE’S AN INVESTOR BORN EVERY MINUTE
“We get a lot of interest from the investment community just because people are curious.”
Andrew Beebe, founder of the unduly secretive Springfield Project, on his non-disclosure agreement with the whole industry, Wired News, 25 November 1998
ASSIMILATE THIS
“Mozilla.org is not Netscape. And it is not now, nor will it ever be, AOL.”
Jamie Zawinski, hacker-in-chief and spirit guide of the Mozilla Organization, on the Netscape-AOL merger’s effect on the open-source browser project, Mozilla.org, 23 November 1998
BUILD IT, AND THEY WILL … OH, NEVER MIND
“You spend a lot of money building the best store you can. Then you need customers.”
Bob Saltzman, VP of strategic development at CDnow, delivering a heretofore unknown secret of e-commerce, Wired News, 23 November 1998
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