"If I was still skeptical about Jay's abilities, how could I possibly explain how people I revered in real American business had flipped over priceline.com? There was Heidi Miller, a person I was in awe of from her Citigroup CFO days. Heck, she could have run Citi if she stuck around, but she left for priceline.com. And Richard Braddock, yes, the same Richard Braddock that we used to call Midas on the trading desk, who turned around Citi and Kodak and everything else he touched. This man was a miracle worker. He could go anywhere. He went to priceline.com. And Dan Shulman, the same Dan Shulman who sent AT&T down when he left to go to priceline.com. Yes, he was that integral to the turn at AT&T, maybe going to run it one day. Smartest guy in Basking Ridge. But he gave it up for priceline.com. And Maryann Keller, one of the savviest analysts in the business, known for never being fooled by an auto cycle. She could write her own ticket in our business. But she left for priceline.com."
"Hedge funds lost fortunes. Just fortunes in this one."
-James Cramer, TheStreet.com, 10/5/2000
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