Fantastic article. Back in the day when I was working for a search engine company (not a big one), my superiors would use this sort of reasoning ALL THE TIME.

Fantastic article. Back in the day when I was working for a search engine company (not a big one), my superiors would use this sort of reasoning ALL THE TIME. At one point they were trying to buy out 10 different bittorrent sites and the reasoning used was pretty much the same ("If only 1% of the people were to convert to legitimate paying customers, they will be worth $12 each!", etc..) Suffice to say, that company isn't around anymore.