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To: John Hauser (88396 )
From: John Hauser
Sunday, Jan 10 1999 12:53PM ET
Reply # of 88409
Holy Spaceship batman (READ THIS) - CUCKOO CUCKOO CUCKOO
Saturday's top stories
USWeb founder quits
over UFO-tech link ideas
Compiled by CBS MarketWatch
Last Update: 1:23 PM ET Jan 9, 1999
SAN FRANCISCO -- Joe Firmage resigned yesterday from the firm he founded so he could
promote his belief that many of today's high-tech advancements, including semiconductors,
fiber optics and lasers, came from aliens.
Firmage is the 28-year-old founder of USWeb (USWB), a high-profile Internet consulting firm
that merged recently with the Net marketing firm CKS to form a 1,950-person public
company worth $2.1 billion. Clients of Santa Clara-based USWeb/CKS include Apple
Computer (AAPL), Levi Strauss and Harley-Davidson (HDI).
In November, shortly before the merger, Firmage was pressured to step down as chief
executive officer of USWeb and take the lesser title of chief strategist because of his
campaign to prove the existence of UFOs. He contends that many high-tech advancements
can be traced to a purported alien spaceship crash in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. Firmage has
published his ideas on the subject -- he calls it "the most important news event in 2,000
years" -- in a manifesto that runs to 600 pages. It's available on the Web.
Yesterday, Firmage said he resigned as chief strategist because he believed that
continuing publicity would damage the company's reputation.
Robert Shaw, CEO of USWeb/CKS, said, ''Given the market exposure associated with his
outside interests, Joe suggested that we would all be better served if he didn't have an
official role with the company." (San Francisco Chronicle) |
