Quote of the day re the dot-com era
Met Nigel Hawthorn of Blue Coat Systems (they do various forms of enterprise filtering), who was recalling the mad days of the dot-com boom, as the company has been around for six years (formerly as Cacheflow).
At one stage growth was 40% per quarter and they didn’t know how they would find staff; then of course it all stopped.
“We thought we could walk on water. And then we drowned.” (Though they’re OK now; profitable, even.)
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- 'I got a trip to Addis Ababa because of Michael Jackson's nose' (8 July 2004; score: 25.04%)
- Are you saying Apple's customers are thieves, Mr Ballmer? (4 October 2004; score: 21.4%)
- Will Wippit whip Sony at the 'iTunes for movies' game? (28 April 2005; score: 19.63%)
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