Word: dotcomism
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Back in 1996, Justin, his twin brother Jef and their friend Larry Kersten were laboring at a Dallas dotcom that had been dangling the prospect of shares before its underpaid employees. But the Sewells and Kersten were low on the ladder, and the promised stock never arrived. A dark mood ensued, Justin recalls, "especially after we started to see other employees becoming fantastically wealthy very quickly...
...China: Dotcom Comeback...
...there are few cheerleaders left to hail the good news. The army of brokerage analysts that once followed the chortals' every move has been routed. "I'm sorry," laments a p.r. person at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, "but we don't have any more Internet-sector analysts." Chastened dotcom CEOs are stressing humility. Sina's CEO Daniel Mao says the rally is "the beginning of a healthy comeback?but we still have a long way to go." Indeed, despite their successes, these remain tiny companies, each with annual revenues well under $50 million (compared with Yahoo's nearly...
...China: Dotcom Comeback...
...cheat in whom he somewhat mysteriously detects good stuff. The conventions of the genre usually dictate that the boy will ultimately reform. The considerable originality of The Emperor's Club (directed by Michael Hoffman) lies in the fact that the kid gets worse, not better, going on to sleazy dotcom millions and, of course, politics. This leaves the prissily played Hundert sadder and wiser. But it still may leave viewers emotionally disconnected from this distinctly unchipper Mr. Chips. --By Richard Schickel...