"Undeterred by the competition, Mashinsky landed a brief spot on CNN Financial Network where he boldly predicted little Arbinet would have sales of $3 billion b

"Undeterred by the competition, Mashinsky landed a brief spot on CNN Financial Network where he boldly predicted little Arbinet would have sales of $3 billion by 2001. But back at Arbinet, reality proved less inspiring. Mashinsky's creativity provided an endless stream of new ideas that he loved to strut for interested audiences. But while Mashinsky traveled and talked, promising initiatives at the company – like Internet telephony – were lost because of a lack of focus. In addition, says Bravard, Arbinet's former president, "Clients were extremely frustrated by the gap between Alex's talk and the reality." Arbinet couldn't keep up with the ideas as quickly as Mashinsky could spin them out." "With Wall Street spooked and Mashinsky on an extended trip to Asia, Bravard and his team made their ultimatum. Mashinsky rushed home from China and fired Arbinet's management for trying to "steal the company." A week later, he temporarily rehired them." "He was also an early developer of voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP).[10][11]" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Mashinsky#cite_note-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Mashinsky#cite_note-10 , check out the sources if you want a laugh. "What if Mashinsky's telecom dreams ultimately fail? He has other, even more ambitious plans. He wants to tap recent advances in genetics to commercialize "body transplants." Companies of the future will be able to "give an old person a new body – keep the head, keep the spine and re-create the rest," he predicts. "That'll be my next assignment.""