wireless

he didn't make money because of the market per se, just because of the .com market boom. however, in his defense, he's about doubled his money since yahoo bought our company. mainly, he knew everything was about to come crashing down, and he shorted the fuck out of young technology companies and made another fuck ton of money in the last 4 years or whatever since the .com bubble burst.

i didn't catch the dennis miller thing, but i wouldn't have minded seeing it. mark amuses the shit out of me. yes, to some degree he's a lucky idiot, but he actually has some damn good ideas and intuitions. i worked for him for 5 years and i can say that despite how much of an idiot he seems to be, he'll surprise you with how much he understands -- he just thinks a different way than most people do. without him, there's no way our company would have taken off the way it did, and there's no way we would have sold to yahoo for as much as we did, if at all. but it wasn't all mark -- our other foudner, todd wagner, was like mark's counterpoint. where mark was visionary and unbelievably enthusiastic, todd was level-headed and rational. it took both personalities for us to succeed.

and as much as he drove me fucking insane on a daily basis, i'd work for him again. the dude knows how to make money, pure and simple.