Silicon Valley Has Learned to Love the Bust

Posted by timothy on Monday April 28, 2003 @11:42AM from the but-has-your-ira dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fortune's David Kirkpatrick interviews scores of valley execs who have stopped worrying continued innovating. He writes: 'The underlying tech boom that began the bubble actually has never stopped. It just stopped paying off. Says Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, the company that has emerged as the head of the new class: "If anything, the rate of innovation in technology has increased in the past couple of years. But that doesn't necessarily make it a good business. The beneficiaries are the end users." Agrees Rob Carter, the CIO of FedEx: "The sound we heard wasn't the bubble bursting; it was the big bang."'"

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Re:They have to love it.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-28 11:49 · Score: 0, Troll

no, a bust is a sculpture with the head and shoulders. oh, and the neck, obviously

and geeks where quite sexy prior to the bust and sometimes still are
Re:CEO/CIO versus the grunt laborer at the bottom by CausticWindow · 2003-04-28 13:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Yeah.. cut-throat capitalism is great until you're the fucking loser. Then you bitch and moan. Those fucking Indians. Stealing our jobs and our biyatches.

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Re:couldnt last 4ever by Blaine+Hilton · 2003-05-02 09:53 · Score: 0, Troll

Hopefully this will happen with bloatware programs soon.
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