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Pastimes : The Death of Silicon Investor
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To: 10K a day who wrote (354)12/30/2001 3:59:20 AM
From: Michael Sphar1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1003
 
I remember back in 96 stopping by SI world headquarters on StevensCreek Blvd, a mile or so from my home. I went there to pick up my first SI teeshirt. The Dryer boys had rented this upstairs floor over a VCR repair shop in one of San Jose's auto row districts. Maybe 1000 sq feet. Only Jill was there at the time. She was a young gal more at home in the city than the burbs around San Jose. She let me in for the grand tour. The ping pong table took up most of the floor space. There were a few computers behind a partition.

A year or two later, I met the Dryers when they and Jill came to the first (and only) SI Beach Party at San Gregorio. Rambi was there and ate Durian. Brad talked about how the birth of SI was conceived on the cliff just north of the beach we were partying upon, where he in an earlier time spent moments drinking beer and thinking great thoughts. There were some picts floating around SI from this party somewhere.

I don't think you can kill a thing like SI. It seems darn near impossible to turn off old obsolete systems even after their economic justification has bee lost in time. I've spent an entire career specialized in an obsolete operating system. People just keep buying the stuff and growing it, even after the company that spawned it has been expunged from the face of the earth.

I do, however, view this thread as sort of a contra indicator for the general health of the investment market, confirming the bottom of the cycle has passed. Thankyou Brian!
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