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Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet Paperback - 1999

by Michael Wolff

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This wickedly funny chronicle of Wolff's rags to riches adventures as a fledgling Internet entrepreneur exposes an industry powered by hype, celebrity, and investment dollars.

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Michael Wolff's wickedly funny chronicle of his rags-to-riches-to-rags adventure as a fledgling Internet entrepreneur exposes an industry powered by hype, celebrity, and billions of investment dollars -- and notably devoid of profit-making enterprises. As he describes his efforts to control his company's burn rate -- the amount of money the company consumes in excess of its income -- Wolff offers a no-holds-barred portrait of unaccountable successes and major disasters, including the story behind Wired magazine and its fanatical founder, Louis Rossetto; the rise of America Online, perhaps the most dysfunctional successful company in history, and the humiliating inability of people such as Bill Gates to untangle the intricacies of the Web.

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I am a reluctant participant in a conference of CEOs of information and technology companies being held at the Ritz in Laguna Beach, one of the poshest in the Ritz chain.

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Michael Wolff's wickedly funny chronicle of his rags-to-riches-to-rags adventure as a fledgling Internet entrepreneur exposes an industry powered by hype, celebrity, and billions of investment dollars -- and notably devoid of profit-making enterprises.

As he describes his efforts to control his company's burn rate -- the amount of money the company consumes in excess of its income -- Wolff offers a no-holds-barred portrait of unaccountable successes and major disasters, including the story behind Wired magazine and its fanatical founder, Louis Rossetto; the rise of America Online, perhaps the most dysfunctional successful company in history; and the humiliating inability of people such as Bill Gates to untangle the intricacies of the Web.

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  • Title Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet
  • Author Michael Wolff
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Touchstone E
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-06-01
  • ISBN 9780684856216 / 0684856212
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.57 x 5.5 x 0.69 in (21.77 x 13.97 x 1.75 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Success in business, Corporate profits
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-13153
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Business Connections, 09/01/1999, Page 12
  • Ingram Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 34

About the author

Michael Wolff writes a weekly column about media for New York magazine and is a founding columnist of the Internet business magazine The Industry Standard. He is the creator of the bestselling NetGuide and the thirty-title series of NetBooks. He is the author of White Kids and the coauthor of Where We Stand, which became a multipart PBS television series. He lives in New York City.
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