Author: Matt

“We haven’t ruled out an ATM strategy ourselves. However, in a world of electronic payments, it becomes less and less an issue.”

X.com founder Elon Musk, on his bank’s strange disinterest in taking money from its customers, Bankrate.com, 25 February 2000

“We’re not a real business yet. All we do is think about content.”

William Bastone, editor of the Smoking Gun, on his Fox-tweaking webzine’s lack of a business plan, The Industry Standard, 24 February 2000

“We have always done a good job of safeguarding privacy. I don’t think we’ve done a good job as we could have on getting the message out there about privacy.”

DoubleClick president Kevin Ryan, on his firm’s skill in keeping privacy matters at his data-sniffing ad-banner firm very, very secret, ZDNN, 23 February 2000

“We are running what I call a software power grid for high-growth Internet companies.”

LoudCloud chairman Marc Andreessen, who describes his company’s business model as “getting paid a lot,” Los Angeles Times, 21 February 2000

“Some of the grand visions we had at that time didn’t work on the thin little straw of the Web.”

Microsoft TV group manager Marty Behrens, on how he’s taking the same strategy that failed for MSN and applying it to interactive TV, The Industry Standard, 21 February 2000