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When I was running my company Prophet (1992-2005), we did a lot of trade shows. I started Prophet with literally $3,000, and we had built it into a cool little twenty-person outfit with several million dollars per year in sales. Even now I find it hard to believe that I pulled it off.
I’m sorry everyone, but due to the fact that American Airlines has the world’s worst Wi-Fi I am almost completely off-line and it will not be doing any posts for the trading day. The only reason I’m able to leave this post is because I am pathetically using my phone to send this message. Sort of like shoving a piece of paper into a bottle and hoping that somebody gets it. In any case you can count on a ton of posts this weekend, but the crappy Wi-Fi that’s American Airlines has provided has rendered this entire flight a washout.
I will be spending the entire trading day airborne, as I travel to Philadelphia (hi, Spock!) for the weekend. Talk amongst yourselves, and I’ll be back once I get settled into flight mode.
The almost-dead company Beyond Meat (BYND) became the superhot meme stock a few days ago, and it went from trading almost nothing to BILLIONS of shares per day. From 50 cents to almost $8 to less than half that in a matter of hours. Fortunes were made and lost. Crazy!
A fascinating and tragic tale:
