“Space.com has established itself as the leading provider of space news, information, entertainment and educational content on the Web. No other company is leveraging this space so aggressively.”
PaineWebber chairman Donald Marron, on his company’s investment in a startup run by hot-air balloonist and former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, Yahoo/Business Wire, 28 March 2000
“There’s a very attractive business opportunity to be the eBay of open source.”
LoudCloud chairman Marc Andreessen, on his extracurricular involvement with open-source site Collab.net, Upside.com, 28 March 2000
“I believe in technology — like I like the idea that I can post this message and have it be sent internationally, and get picked up.”
Digital provocateur Sam Lowry, offering no Luddite apologies for his blowthedotoutyourass.com website (which we’ve always suspected was an undercover campaign to promote Network Solutions’ domain-name registration service), Wired News, 28 March 2000
“It is the sort of appliance you might enjoy having on your kitchen counter … there is already a base of Palm users who are primed for the kind of product we are bringing onto the market.”
3Com CEO Eric Benhamou, on the newly slimmed-down company’s plans to expand its product line into the kitchen, ZDNN, 27 March 2000
“Internet merchants haven’t always come out of the old catalog business, and sometimes they have little experience in business. They’re often new and often focused on IPOs and other stuff.”
Visa executive Dave Richey, on the warring priorities of the online merchants who pay his company fees to take credit cards over the Web, News.com, 24 March 2000
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