“The recent downturn in the capital markets has substantially impaired our ability to raise the capital required to achieve profitability.”
Shaun Holliday, CEO of the now-bankrupt Living.com, on his company’s revolutionary notion that the secret to a profitable business isn’t finding paying customers but getting investors to throw good money after bad, BBC News, 16 August 2000
“[CEOs] aren’t very happy. They’re dying of loneliness because of their fierce desire to be independent. So these days when they ask me what the killer app is, I look at them and I say, Love.”
Yahoo Value Lab director Tim Sanders, on his radical suggestion that corporate America put the “pet” in “coopetition,” Inside.com, 17 August 2000
“It’s easy to see why a big company like AOL would love to get something for free. I’m waiting to see how they choose to give back to the community.”
Open-source pundit Peter Wayner, on AOL’s release of a Linux version of its software to a doubting geek audience, Wired News, 16 August 2000
“The open-source collaborative development model is built to succeed in the Internet age. It makes much more sense than the proprietary model.”
Dell Computer chairman Michael Dell, assailing proprietary operating-system vendor Sun Microsystems in a LinuxWorld keynote address …
“Clearly, Microsoft has a pretty profitable customer model and customer franchise.”
… Dell, praising proprietary operating-system vendor Microsoft in a post-keynote interview, News.com, 15 August 2000
“People told me [Go.com] had to be like Microsoft and put out version one and two and three, and eventually we would get it right…. I’ve never been involved with anything where I didn’t believe what we did wasn’t the best. But here we were, experimenting in front of the public.”
Disney CEO Michael Eisner, revealing through a triple negative an inadvertently keen understanding of Microsoft’s quality-is-job-3.0 strategy, The New York Times, 14 August 2000
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