Word: dotcomers
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...TRADE, MONKEY II At Super Bowl 2000, in the glory year of the dotcom ads, the online trader proudly blew $2 million on a spot featuring a dancing monkey. At Super Bowl 2001, the monkey rode through a ghost town littered with the graves of Tieclasp.com, Pimentoloaf.com"--and the lifeless body of a familiar-looking sock puppet. At least the Internet boom could laugh at its own funeral...
...with the Internet, he was put in charge of News Corp.'s Web operations. Neither venture produced the kind of results that launch careers. The severely pared-down music division is now on the verge of being sold. News Corp. also recently took a $300 million write-off for dotcom investments James championed...
...WHITMAN When a headhunter begged her to interview at a fledgling dotcom, Whitman, then an executive at Hasbro's preschool division, at first declined. But she reconsidered and within a couple of years turned EBAY into the most successful pure Internet company while making herself the first woman Internet billionaire. Whitman, 44, has made eBay--with more merchandise than ever, including $1 billion a year in auto sales and 37 million users worldwide--a truly global marketplace...
...WHITMAN President and CEO, eBay Though most dotcom bosses can't get an investment bank to return their phone calls these days, Whitman and her company are held in such esteem that she has been named to the board of Goldman Sachs. Whitman, 44, joined eBay in 1998 and applied the lessons she learned at such old-economy firms as Hasbro and Disney. She did adopt some New Economy habits. Rather than preside from an office, she sits in a cubicle among her employees. Whitman was once criticized in Silicon Valley for stressing profitability over growth, but many...
That's a self-serving view, but it's one shared by independent analysts. The volume of digital information--transaction data, e-mail, video images--that companies collect and store continues to double every year in spite of the dotcom wipeouts. "It is the only recession-proof area from a capacity-demand perspective," says Steve Duplessie of the Enterprise Storage Group, a research firm based in Milford, Mass. "Nobody ever needs less storage...