| Company |
Upon Joining |
Upon Leaving |
| DCI |
Small, fast-growing cell-phone company. |
Suddenly went bankrupt; an employee had embezzled significant funds
despite warnings to management. |
| Econopage |
Exponentially growing pager company. Single-handledly cut Bay Area pager prices
in half or more. |
Company tried to go public, overextended, and quickly imploded, leaving thousands of customers
with worthless pager contracts. Case received wide publicity in the San Jose Mercury News
and
San Francisco Chronicle.
Senior company officials are currently being investigated on charges of fraud. |
| Beyond.com |
High-flying B2C software company, flush with cash and with experienced manangement.
Stock price: over 20 |
Crashed to earth as dot-com boom went bust. Employees fleeing in droves.
Current stock price: 1 15/16 (Aug 23, 2000)
Update: The consumer software division was completely dissolved.
Beyond now sells exclusively to government and business. By some miracle,
they have not been de-listed... they currently are at 11/32.
Update #2: As of the end of 2001, Beyond.com is out of business.
|
| Go.com |
Disney's Web presence, with access to Infoseek's technology and Disney's
impressive array of content.
Stock price: over 25 |
Locked in bruising battle with other well-established portals, such as
Yahoo and AOL. Trying to refocus on entertainment.
Current stock price: 13 5/16 (Aug 23, 2000)
Update: After a godawful October redesign,
the newly-renamed Disney Internet Group now trades at 4 1/16.
Update #2: DIG is out of business.
|
| clockware.com |
Pre-IPO purveyor of web-based timesheet & reporting software.
Revenue is pouring in, and the company currently has no
serious competition. |
Update: Pat has left Clockware. The company is down to a
skeleton crew.
|
| Sony |
Multibillion dollar consumer electronics corporation.
By all accounts, the PlayStation2 is thoroughly kicking XBox ass.
Stock price: $42.25 (as of Pat's hire date)
|
Update 29-Dec-2006: Mere months after hiring Pat, Sony Electronics
stock plummeted into the mid-20s. It has taken over three years since
Pat's departure for Sony to claw its way back to its original stock price.
|
