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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (128021)7/10/2001 12:21:14 AM
From: H James Morris  Respond to of 164684
 
>do ya think the lesson was learned?
SB, I lost about $5k on WebVan. Yes, a lesson was learned!
If I had that $5k back I could go out and buy a 5 topping pizza in Palo Alto to night.;)



To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (128021)7/10/2001 2:05:18 AM
From: H James Morris  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 164684
 
SB, honestly it was Goldman & Sachs who talked me into buying WebVan...I didn't make that decision on my own.
Trust me on this one.;O)
>But modesty was never the guiding principle with Webvan. The people who pushed it most strongly -- the investment bankers, the venture capitalists, the dot-com millionaires
www0.mercurycenter.com



To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (128021)7/10/2001 9:38:06 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph  Respond to of 164684
 
hjm, webvan burned up a billion bucks plus. AMAZING! do ya think the lesson was learned?


SB,

This is one of the largest failure on record. Amazon's cash burn and failure will drawf it.