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To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (21988)	5/9/2000 11:09:00 PM
From: MIKE REDDERT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

ExciteAtHome, whose stock has fallen 59 percent this year, is also suffering a brain drain. This is old news... brain drain started over a year ago. Mike

To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (21988)	5/10/2000 3:05:00 AM
From: KailuaBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Complete bullshit. 100% tabloid nonsense.

To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (21988)	5/10/2000 7:52:00 PM
From: gpowell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

`There are a bunch of resumes on the street,'' said Sean Doherty, an AtHome co-founder who now runs Urban Media Communications, a Palo Alto startup. I received the following pertinent comment from a source: "Sean Doherty was hired as a director of customer service and schmoozed Will Hearst who promoted him to VP of ATHM when there were only 50 total head count in the company. He botched that so badly he was exiled to @Work where he spent 3 months doing nothing. When TJ was hired, the first thing he figured out is that Sean Doherty was a scam artist. He fired him within a week. Sean then started "Urban Media". They provide free broadband access to buildings with multiple tenants in the hopes that they can "upsell" those presumably value added services in the future. It's a complete ponzi scheme. They have been around for years and have the inside of a doughnut to show for their efforts. Here's the best part. They literally cut and pasted the @Home web site and changed the company name and the color scheme. They pasted Urban Media on it. Same source code. This guy is spawned from the cesspool that is Silicon Valley. Now he is quoted by an idiot trying to appear like he knows something no one else does. Brain drain at ATHM, my ass. The dead wood is being fired left and right and this fool is asking the person who was fired two years ago what is going on. I wish I could put that article in its place but I guess it doesn't matter either way. It just pisses me off that people will believe that."

To: Jack Hartmann who wrote (21988)	5/11/2000 1:39:00 AM
From: Jack Hartmann	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

Company's Former CEO to Join VC Firm By: Todd Wallack Wednesday, May 10, 2000 Former ExciteAtHome chief executive Tom Jermoluk confirmed rumors yesterday that he plans to join the famed Menlo Park venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers as a general partner. An announcement is expected today. Jermoluk, 43, who stepped down as ExciteAtHome CEO in January and gave up the chairman's title Monday, said he decided he would have more fun nurturing several young technology companies than working as a full-time executive. ``I really like being able to build a company,'' said Jermoluk, who also spent 10 years at Silicon Graphics. ``I'm still an engineer at heart.'' He also said he felt comfortable leaving ExciteAtHome after working out a deal with the company's cable partners to give AT&T control of the firm and extending the partnerships with three of the firms. Jermoluk already has invested $10 million to $15 million in four startups: SmartPipes, which helps provide Internet infrastructure services; Kibu, a Web ``hangout'' for teenage girls; Shutterfly, a Net digital photography service; and myCFO, an Internet financial services Web site. sfgate.com **************** This Kibu site has an odd undertone when combined with the other digital photography venture. Doesn't go with the quote an "engineer at heart". More like a 43 year old man man having a midlife crisis. Hope no negative press is in the future for him. Haven't heard of this venture capital firm. Jack