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To: Edwin S. Fujinaka who wrote (4760)	4/5/2000 9:46:00 PM
From: b_spiral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6020

Edwin In the totality of it all, I think that the US has little consequence on Japan price. But when buying or selling I think you can make decisions based on the price in the US or Europe. For example when I looked at options for Softbank in Europe last night they were virtually unchanged - which indicated I would not lose too much money today..... I hope... Oh, yeah the oil patch. One of my friends is a geologist who used to take core samples for gold in the Canadian north. Great stories about crazy bush pilots and how to make up games playing with dynamite when you are young and piss drunk. He also thought it was incredibly beautiful - something few people have seen. Anyway, he was always amazed at how inventive his employers could get with core samples. Gary

To: Edwin S. Fujinaka who wrote (4760)	4/6/2000 3:04:00 AM
From: Taikun	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6020

Edwin, I was at the National Venture Capital Assn Annual Meeting today (actually met John Doerr) but there was a very interesting panel with one person from Idealab, one from CMGI, Jake Winebaum (Earthlink founder, now ecompanies) and Geoff Yang of IVP. The question on whether to go public or not was really interesting. ecompanies is thinking about it, Idealab has the Investment Holding Act issues, as we know. CMGI (Jon Callaghan) said that although the publicly traded stock may trade at a discount sometimes (ie now) to underlying assets' unrealized value, CMGI was finding publicly traded stock as a superior way to attract top talent compared to the 'carried interest' at an unlisted VC that can limit one's upside plus make it difficult to allow new joins to share in the winnings. That said, Softbank should be able to use this currency to get top talent around the world. If they can, could they not continue to dominate the venture capital 'talent' pool? Just a nice thought? By the way, if you're interested, here is that pesky act (Investment Company Act): law.uc.edu