Techride: THE INTERVIEW Part II by yor frend Jed
Mario: Are you ready to tell us more about Techride?
Jed: Sure young fellar, whair wuz we?
Mario: We were talking about how BLUE dealt with his situation and we were about to talk about how you two met. Was it in the military? Did you and BLUE serve with Col. Charles Beckwith?
Jed: Beckwith? Let me see now, served in Vietnam with Special Forces, hand picked sum special AIRBORNE RANGER types an had a C-rit unit. Rumored to hav worked lookin for POWs in Nam, guy wid bushey eyebrows n called peoples mullets? Never heard of him.
Mario: Well who did you and BLUE serve with?
Jed: I cant's tell U dat.
Mario: Well then tell me how Techride started then.
Jed: BLUE cum back frum Florida differunt. Da whole tine he cared 4 his Dad he wuz tinkin bout how his Dad gave 37 years 2 IBM n den died a few years affer leaving. Lik affer IBM and da Space Program he was used up, gave it all 2 a corporayshun. Delt wid da stress by smokin and dat killed him.
Mario: How did it change BLUE?
Jed: Well BLUE dun didn't want 2 go bac 2 da corprut world. 1 phone call, six figures, n he whoodn't pick up da phone. No sir, BLUE had a new job. To carry on his Dad's battle, Dad wuz dead but his battle ain't, "cancer wins nothing" becum his motto. So n-nee-way BLUE went bout reallee learnin all he chood bout cancer n stoks. So 2 learn more he went online n started 2 watch CNNfn n CNBC 2 see whut da experts were sayin. N he studied n studied stocks n companees.
Mario: So then he started Techride?
Jed: No sir, it wuz just like da paratrooper days, he wuz stealth.
Mario: Stealth, what is the meaning of that term?
Jed: He wuz online but never posted nowhere. He just read da AOL posts n never said noting. BLUE notussed dem peoples on AOL kept dem boards a mess n dat peoples attacked peoples all da tine. BLUE had just been thru sum hard tines so he just sats back n invested n studied sum new stocks nobody wanted, da stocks da pros said 2 avoid, innernet stoks. BLUE soon found out dat da peoples on CNBC talkin bout da innernet were dummies. He knew den if he chood learn mor den udder peoples bout innernets dat he whood mak a lot of monees n he whood be home, just incase MRS. BLUE found anudder lump in her breast, no sir, he whoodn't be out of town on biznuss if dat happuned again.
Mario: So then he started Techride?
Jed: Sort of. BLUE realiezed dat of all da people he seen on AOL only a few investors wuz worth talkin to. So BLUE sent dem PMs n BLUE den board napped his first board. Board napping wuz gra8 fun
but it sure pissed AOL off. Whut BLUE did wuz found a companee board dat nobody wuz on n den him an his frends whood met dar n talk stock. BLUE picked companees dat back den nobody knew about, NETA, NSOL, GNET, U name it BLUE found dem when day were babies.
Mario: So where did the board come in?
Jed: Well da word got out on YHOO dat dar wuz dis guy pickin sum killer stoks n B4 U noed it, lots of people were lookin for BLUE on AOL. Dey had a hell of a tine finding him as he kept moving da board. Den he napped the AOL NETA board. Well, next ting U know dat stok took off cause U had see NETA to find BLUE n da boys, n it wuz boys back den, all men peoples. So once BLUE knew lots of people were readin him he did da next part of the plan. He folded the board. He knew whut whood happen when people found out the gang wuz gone, day whood give AOL a hard tine and den BLUE chood set his term.
Mario: AOL doesn't give boards to customers, what happen next?
Jed: AOL gave BLUE his own board n on his terms.
Mario: You are serious?
Jed: I'm serreus, AOL whood of done n-nee-ting as da board napping wuz reallee pissin them off. N 2 make damn sure everEbodE knew it wuz a different board BLUE named da board a funnE name. Here is serreus AOL and they had a board wid a silly name. Vintage BLUE.
Mario: So you're telling me AOL cut a deal, gave him his own board on his terms? What were the terms?
Jed: BLUE, got to name the board, n unlike any other board BLUE got 2 set the topic. BLUE's main term was that he could talk about any ting he wanted, noting wuz off topic. An AOL first. Dats when BLUE started wid tings he wanted 2 do, whitched wuz to remind womens to do self breast exams. If U wanted to read BLUE n da stoks he wuz pickin or marcut correction calls, U had to tink bout cancer in return, no way round it.
Mario: So that is when Techride was born?
Jed: No sir, BLUE called that board anudder name, his portfolio wuz called Techride. BLUE named it Techride long tine ago to remind him not 2 get worried bout da marcut. Techs go up n day go down, a Techride.
Mario: So the board grew.
Jed: U can say dat, it wuz the busiest PF board on AOL. Da bigger it got da more peoples der were to remind bout cancer. BLUE knew da self exam was whut saved MRS. BLUE n da more peoples he chood tell da better. He set da 2nd of each month 2 remind Laydees 2 do self exams. N boy did he pick sum stoks. One day he posted on da board he had found a IPO he wuz watchin affer he had checked dem out. Back den GNET phones didn't ring much so BLUE chood call n talk 2 peoples. BLUE's queshton was can yor severs handle some volume. Day said day could. BLUE den posted a buy on GNET n it went frum 9, 2 19 or sumting lik dat, da very first volume spike. Sum servers went down but GNET got em bac up. Does were fun tines back den.
Mario: What was the best thing that happened because of that board?
Jed: A frend BLUE n I met. People used to write BLUE PMs all da tine at AOL. Most tines he didn't evvon anssir cause he wasn't gettin paid or anyting. Den dis persun came 2 da board n was nice, n smart n reallee funny. Affer sum tine dat person sent BLUE a PM tellin him dat dis persun was a woman! Remember now that was a all boy board and here dis woman wuz postin all along lik one of da boys da whole tine. It wuz our c-rit 4 sum a long tine den 1 day we told da boys. Dat woman was Joan.
Mario: Wow this is a story, tell me more.
Jed: Laytar I will, I got chores now, damn BLUE works me like a mule. |
