“Friends would ask me, “What’s it like to be a famous international Internet CEO?” “I’m not a famous international Internet CEO,” I would answer. “But I play one on TV.”

I absolutely, completely, 100% sold myself to the media to promote Tripod.

Tripod was all hat and no cattle. Had we taken it public, we would most likely have failed, and everyone, including many unsuspecting individual investors, would have lost a lot of money.

The vast majority of journalists are not interested in covering what is actually happening. They are interested in covering what they think people want to think is actually happening.