From the Desk of John Kumpunen

We so easily get caught up with the internet-guru stories that we forget where the real growth and the real spectacular achievements are. It’s not in killer copy, platinum circles, it’s not setting up the website and writing a hundred articles. It is far more fundamental than that. It’s thinking big. If you have to worry about your copy, drop the product. If you have to juggle headlines, drop the product — it will never, ever make you rich.

And the guys we all should pay attention to are the real movers and shakers.

G.F. who grew a $200M company to $31 billion
M.U. who took a $10M company to $10 billion.
T.W. who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion
S.S. a billionaire who runs Fastweb with over a billion in sales
C.A. a billionaire who runs Bodog
K.T. a construction worker who sold to Teleglobe for $3.5 billion
P.F. who sold to Adidas for $3.8 billion
D.D. who sold to Ellison for $10 billion
T.W. a billionaire drop out who built Gateway
A.M. who sold to Infinity for $8.7 billion
Newegg that went from zero to billion in 4 years

Now, THAT’s a class act. No nickel and diming there.