-geoff
Stefan Savage writes:
> After talking to Bershad... its not clear that you want it.
>
> He's seeing all of his packets to UW go by way of California and lots of
> then get lost.
>
> - Stefan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Voelker [mailto:voelker@cs.washington.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 11:20 AM
> To: savage@cs.washington.edu
> Cc: syn@cs.washington.edu
> Subject: RE: @home to buy excite...
>
>
> when Detour buys @Home, can you finally get service to my apartment?
>
> -geoff
>
> Stefan Savage writes:
> > Since its well established that the market cap of an Internet stock is
> > inversely proportional to how much money they earn, I suggest we
> > incorporate Detour, announce our intention to buy @Home, then IPO.
> The
> > resulting debt that we've taken on will swiftly bring our market cap
> to
> > a range where we can actually afford it.
> >
> > BTW, while I am joking, this isn't so far-fetched... the junk bond
> > takeover folks did pretty much exactly this in the 80's.
> >
> > - Stefan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoff Voelker [mailto:voelker@cs.washington.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 11:11 AM
> > To: savage@cs.washington.edu
> > Cc: syn@cs.washington.edu
> > Subject: Re: @home to buy excite...
> >
> >
> > UW people making money off of repackaging:
> >
> > Web Crawler --\
> > ---- Excite --- @Home
> > NetBot --/
> >
> > begs the question of who is going to buy @Home. Appliant :-?
> >
> > -geoff
> >
> > Stefan Savage writes:
> > > http://www.techweb.com/news/story/TWB19990119S0003
> > >
> > > Raj may be bp's boss by the next retreat... ;-)
> > >
> > > - Stefan