http://thebillfold.com/2012/08/pieces-of-paper-in-a-vault/ Everything About Money You Were Too Polite To Ask Thu, 23 May 2013 21:35:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thebillfold.com/2012/08/pieces-of-paper-in-a-vault/#comment-12653 jfruh Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:31:52 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=10020#comment-12653 In 2000, I was working for a sort-of dot-com that was a small subsidiary of a large privately held corporation; the whole purpose behind the creation of our business unit was that we would eventually be spun off in a dot-com-style IPO that would make our parent corporation (and, to a lesser extent, us) rich with dumb late '90s bubble cash. Unfortunately the stock market collapsed before this could happen. I remember very clearly being in the office the day the NASDAQ cratered most spectacularly, and our CEO was walking around literally daubing his forehead with a napkin and saying things like "boy, the markets are brutal today," and I (who was 25 at the time) said to him, "Hey, man, is it the revolution?", totally as a joke, and he looked REALLY, REALLY FREAKED OUT. It really was a lot of money to him, at that point, theoretical or no. In 2000, I was working for a sort-of dot-com that was a small subsidiary of a large privately held corporation; the whole purpose behind the creation of our business unit was that we would eventually be spun off in a dot-com-style IPO that would make our parent corporation (and, to a lesser extent, us) rich with dumb late ’90s bubble cash. Unfortunately the stock market collapsed before this could happen. I remember very clearly being in the office the day the NASDAQ cratered most spectacularly, and our CEO was walking around literally daubing his forehead with a napkin and saying things like “boy, the markets are brutal today,” and I (who was 25 at the time) said to him, “Hey, man, is it the revolution?”, totally as a joke, and he looked REALLY, REALLY FREAKED OUT. It really was a lot of money to him, at that point, theoretical or no.

]]> http://thebillfold.com/2012/08/pieces-of-paper-in-a-vault/#comment-12648 szajic Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:15:26 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=10020#comment-12648 @Weasley I'm a scientist at a pharma company. @Weasley I’m a scientist at a pharma company.

]]> http://thebillfold.com/2012/08/pieces-of-paper-in-a-vault/#comment-12647 Weasley Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:04:51 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=10020#comment-12647 I think about science all day too, what kind of job do you have? I think about science all day too, what kind of job do you have?

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