“To fail while attempting something big turns out not to be a negative.”
Startup veteran Kevin Doren, on the lessons learned when Go stopped, San Jose Mercury News, 5 June 1999
MY BOSS WON’T LET ME BUY SPARKLY THINGS
“We haven’t found the sparkling opportunity that blends technology and content in a liberating form.”
Sony Americas CEO Howard Stringer, on his search for the perfect Internet acquisition, Forbes, 14 June 1999 (issue date)
TRANSLATION: HE’S ABOUT 100 PERCENT VESTED
“The Internet is only about 20 percent invented.”
Former Disney Internet executive Jake Winebaum, on why he decided to flee the Mouse House and go startup, ZDNN, 7 June 1999
WHO’S ZOOMING WHO?
“We’ve invested a great deal in working with software developers and helping them to build their applications in ways that take advantage of our innovations.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, offering testimony in yet another trial, explaining how, no, really, developers are taking advantage of his company, not the other way around, Wired News, 8 June 1999
IT’S THE DIGITAL ECONOMY, STUPID
“You’d have to be crazy not to recognize that business and finance are an integral part of the Internet, of the Wired culture.”
Wired editor-in-chief Katrina Heron, coming to the realization a few years too late that there’s gold in them thar TCP/IP stacks, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 1999
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