The author said at the time that he is not an internet investor, but please tell me he was an early stage investor in google, please? I mean, google is just 3 months old, you're savvy enough to see what's right with it and what's wrong with everything else, he can't have missed the opportunity, can he? I mean, he is not being told by his investment advisor this and that, he can see it himself! I hope he invested.
Hey, this is Scott Rosenberg, who wrote this piece 15 years ago. Glad to see this piece unearthed again! I'm a journalist, not a tech investor. Never owned a cent of Google (except maybe through index funds in my IRA). More interested in writing about technology than in making money with it.
I see... And this is why I love the internet. You can read something from some American magazine from 15 years ago, and talk to the author about it. All the way from Africa. If that isn't a big deal, I don't what is.
Unfortunately for the early adopters, Google didn't go public for another six years, and all their early funding came from people who were already rich.