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To: Bo Le who wrote (210)	2/16/1999 2:21:00 PM
From: Trippi	Respond to of 418

Bo Le they clearly pissed you off -- shame on the Jacob's family putting $3million at risk like that with out consulting you about price. <g> Trippi

To: Bo Le who wrote (210)	2/16/1999 2:24:00 PM
From: AJ Berger	Respond to of 418

Yahoo Post by XtTapalatakettle Earnings for past five quarters (including today) are: +0.22 (Dec 1997) +0.12 (Mar 1998) +0.11 (Jun 1998) +0.04 (Sep 1998) -0.05 (Dec 1998) * * One-time gains, like one-time charges, are /not/ included in earnings. Wait till tomorrow, when Yahoo! updates their infos. Given a current price of about 11.75, P/E for previous four quarters -was- 11.75/.49 = 23.5 P/E now is 11.75/.21 = 56 Check out Yahoo! research link: biz.yahoo.com I'm still somewhat bullish. Yet now ALU looks like they 'need' to do the IPO and that might make it harder to find a good, fair deal for tFC IPO. The downside is they don't do the IPO and ALU continues to lose money. I'd appreciate comments from this bb or, most especially, in a PR from ALU. Luck! Posted: Feb 16 1999 2:08PM EST

To: Bo Le who wrote (210)	2/16/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: Tom Hua	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 418

Bo, I don't know how much your knowledge is with regard to funding by venture capitalists in a private company. Usually, they expect a minimum of 1000% return on investment. CIEN VCs paid $0.70/share before the company went public. They sold for more than $50 a couple of years later. Same goes for many many companies. How much do you think Softbank paid for their large stakes in Yahoo and ETrade? Look it up and you'll be shocked and you'd appreciate the generosity of the Jacobs family. Jacob family is too greedy and seems they decided to piss off all ALU shareholders. Please don't generalize with the word ALL. On the contrary, I'm pleased with their investment in fragrancecounter.com. Regards, Tom