“We’re not seeing the volumes that we had prayed for. But I think that over time it will be overcome.”
Dan Lynch, chairman of Cybercash, on his e-cash company’s pathetically low transaction volume, ZDNN/MSNBC, 9 February 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.
BUT SMOKE AND MIRRORS ARE THE SOFTWARE BIZ’S BEST PRACTICES
“‘Community’ today is what ‘content’ was on the Web last year: smoke and mirrors for companies that have not figured out how to provide useful services to their customers.”
Seth Goldstein, managing corporate princelet of CKS SiteSpecific, Forbes Digital Tool, 6 February 1998
BANDWIDTH IS HARD. LET’S GO SHOPPING!
“I think we have proven over time that acquisitions are a core competency of ours.”
John Sidgmore, chief operating officer of MCI/WorldCom/MFS/UUNet, on his company’s growth-for-growth’s-sake philosophy, News.com, 4 February 1998
WHO NEEDS DUE DILIGENCE WHEN YOU KNOW WHERE IT’S AT?
“Fundamentally, it’s an instinct thing. CNET’s reputation is that ‘this is where it’s at.’ And that’s the kind of company we want to be with.”
Michael Bloomberg, founder and CEO of the Bloomberg financial media empire and noted hepcat, explaining what he values in a media partner, Wired News, 4 February 1998
CHAOS IMPOSED FROM ON HIGH SOUNDS MORE LIKE IT
“The most interesting question is not whether we have chaos on the Internet, but where order will come from — the top down or the bottom up.”
David Johnson, director of the Aspen Institute’s Internet policy project, on the various schemes to rework the Net’s domain names to include the ever-so-useful and globally conscious .firm, .store, and .web hierarchies, Salon Magazine, 3 February 1998
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