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Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveller, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism. — Henry David Thoreau

In memory of Boo

Thursday August 21, 2003 12:09

Inspired by recent attendance at a lecture on the dot com industry, I decided to return to the scene of the most spectacular dot com crash of them all: boo.com. Internet literature still abounds on the story - after all who could fail to be intrigued by the story of two Swedish entrepreneurs who managed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars and end up with virtually nothing?

My favourite quote is from The Guardian:

For Malmsten, the fame he has achieved far outweighs the stigma of the collapse of boo. One person who knows him well said: ‘All he ever wanted was to meet beautiful women and go to parties. He’s got all that now.’

And everyone lived happily every after…

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