Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Formed the Web Age and Dot-Com Increase – Buzz Credit score

And Caruso’s New Ebook Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Formed the Web Age and Dot-Com Increase is obtainable for pre-order, to be launched on February 4, 2025.

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Dan requested me to put in writing the foreword, which I fortunately did. See an excerpt explaining why I liked studying this e-book.

Bandwidth Foreword Excerpt

In April 2024, Dan requested me to have a look at his manuscript. I learn the introduction and, inside every week, the remainder of the e-book. Studying it jogged my memory of locations the place my path crossed his, comparable to Exodus buying Service Metrics (a Mobius funding), which returned our total first fund. In fact, a number of years later, after the results of a horrifying merger with World Crossing, the mixed Exodus-World Crossing went bankrupt. Or, the day Howard Diamond, CEO of Company Software program (one other Mobius funding), walked into my workplace and mentioned, “Stage 3 is buying us for $125 million,” to which I mentioned, “Why the fuck would a telecom infrastructure firm purchase a software program reseller?” After which there have been tales Dan didn’t even know, just like the time I sat in Stage 3’s workplace in Broomfield, Colorado (5 minutes from my workplace in Superior, Colorado), in 2001, praying Stage 3 would purchase Interliant (a failing public firm I used to be co-chair of) for no different motive than Stage 3 had purchased different failing public firms. And, no, Stage 3 didn’t purchase Interliant, and sure, Interliant did fail.

Earlier than studying BandwidthI noticed the Web Revolution via the lens of software program and Web firms. I knew a few of the tales of Qwest, Enron, World Crossing, Stage 3, and others—however didn’t respect the small print and magnitude of the Bandwidth Increase and Bust. The adventurous tales of enterprise legends comparable to Phil Anschutz, Craig McCaw, Jim Crowe, and even Carl Icahn have been thrilling to learn. The exploits of unhealthy actors comparable to Joe Nacchio, Gary Winnick, and Bernie Ebbers have been much more exhilarating. Epic battles of hostile takeovers, botched enterprise plans, phoenixes rising from ashes, and entrepreneurs who persevered jogged my memory why I get a lot success from serving to start-ups grow to be giant successes and enduring firms. And why I’m prepared to combat for any firm by which I’m concerned.

As I learn, I additionally discovered much more about Dan. I now know why so many individuals have sturdy emotions about Dan—some suppose he walks on water, whereas others want an enormous wave would knock him over. On this e-book, he overtly shares the challenges he needed to overcome and the pivots he needed to make. At every step, he’s delightfully self-deprecating and conscious of what labored and what didn’t. I, for one, get pleasure from watching him frequently do extraordinary issues. Put me within the “Dan walks on water” camp.