Comment by nradov
2 years ago
That's a good one. But in terms of sheer cluelessness, hubris, and word salad incoherency I still prefer this quote from Jeff Davis, co-founder of Razorfish. They were valued at $4B in 2000.
"I think this definitely is not a fad, what's occurring right now. This is absolutely real; this is a revolution; we're packing rifles; and this is going to be something that's going to change the course of the way the world is functioning. We've asked our clients to recontextualize their business. We've recontextualized what it is to be a services business. We radically transform businesses to invent and reinvent them."
Their actual business? Building web sites for other companies.
Sounds like he was bang on right?
So not unlike the elevator pitch for most of the "LLM for $industry" pitches floating around then :-)
Wonder how many of them will still exist as brands in 24 years' time...
None, but they’ll sell and exit with a few mil like bandits in the near future while you and I toil at our 9 to 5 :P
That wasn't wrong in 2000, just bad timing.
I mean, sure, but didn’t every single one of those clients have to adjust everything because of the rise of digital?
“Just a website” was common criticism and still is.
Great quote though. Those were heady days.
I mean, circa 2000 where was the BS?
Back Street's back, all right!
everywhere