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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. I felt I had earned the right to be there.