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To: Nelson Chang who wrote (4313)	7/27/1999 7:16:00 AM
From: Jeff Dryer	Respond to of 7772

>Anyways, the media tells you about exponential internet growth, etc. >much like how they stated that the Y2K problem was a $600 billion >problem. And any company out there, if they could capture just 0.1% >of the pie which was "very likely" was going to make a fortune. >Well, most of those companies are now doing poorly. Why? People in the media love to fantasize... most of them have very limited business knowledge so they report as true almost any number they are told without any verification of facts... fact checking is too time consuming and requires too much thinking. IT'S BIGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and then Wall Street is equally bad with their simplification of the World. Wall Street types love to speak in catch phrase terms. "Microsoft like profit margins" - oooh... I want some of that. "blue chip Internet" - yes... I feel confident now. "exploding growth" - how much growth? "BIG BIG GROWTH. Internet GROWTH. YOU know GROWTH." ... I want some of that!