> Were you at work during the dotcom boom? You don't sound like someone with firsthand knowledge of the bubble environment. Just FYI -- I was working in San Fr

> Were you at work during the dotcom boom? You don't sound like someone with firsthand knowledge of the bubble environment. Just FYI -- I was working in San Francisco during the craziest days of the bubble, at a company that WAS profitable, IPO'ed, then got bought by GE and merged into another which began bleeding money. I looked at aD, along with some other places, and saw that aD had headed downhill, so I moved back east, launching another company and eventually ending up at Google. I remember being rather disheartened by what happened at aD. Not surprised, given my experiences with corporate drones, but nonetheless disheartened that a company with a good premise, a plan to make the world a better place, and solid profits from operations had been destroyed by VC politics.