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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (79238)	10/1/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: Tom D	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

The New Metric of Bezos: <<A new metric for success is... ...our ability to defy easy analogy>> I did not make this up. <<"One of the metrics of our success will be our ability to continue to defy easy analogy>> I can imagine Blodgett's upgrade already. "We are utterly clueless about the business model, future revenues and prospects for profitability for company XYZ.com. Consequently we are upgrading it to a 1-1-1: Strong Buy, Lowest Risk, Must Have. We are pleased with the decline in same store sales in Q2 compared to Q1 and thrilled with the failure to grow members from 10 million to 13 million as expected. We are particularly impressed with management's consistency in its refusal to provide information and in its inability to articulate any plans which conform to the rules of business in our physical world. We find no truth to the short-sellers' malicious rumors that XYZ's business model makes sense in an alternate universe caused by a tear in the space-time continuum with different laws of physics and business rules. Consequently, we conclude that XYZ's business plan is pure nonsense, uncontaminated by anything analogous to logic, and therefore, based on the Bezos New Metric we predict a doubling of market cap in the next 2 months [ed. note: 2 months is equal to one year of investment time on the internet]. Tom D