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Subject: RE: UKNM: Burn Rate
From: Cait Hurley
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:00:52 +0100

Wolff continued to whinge about his ex-employees in his Industry standard
column, and came across as a supreme egoist, amazed that any of the people
he took on for low-to-no wages would feel disgruntled or hard done by when
he screwed up.

It developed in to a bit of a feud with another columist who wrote a vicious
piece, and it all got rather bitter:

http://www.obscurestore.com/carl.html

Unfortunately, The Standard seems to have a time limit on it's DB archives
so the evidence can't be viewed.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owneratchinwag [dot] com [owneratchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:owneratchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Paul
> Murphy
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:45 AM
> To: uk-netmarketingatchinwag [dot] com
> Subject: Re: UKNM: Burn Rate
>
>
> >I'd agree that Burn Rate is a "must read". But the really
> disappointing
> >thing is the website
>
> is a marvellous book - also worth seeing are the comments on
> amazon <seems
> to be either one star or 5 stars> especially the ones by ex-employees:
>
> A reader from New York , January 16, 1999
> Those who can't, write.
>
> I worked at CMP during the time Wolff writes about. While
> some of what he
> says is true, his descriptions of people in the company is cruel and
> insensitive. He describes one of the best journalists in the computer
> industry as "a drawf in a wheelchair" I believe. And he belittles the
> founders of CMP, Gerry and Lilo Leeds, for the crime of being old.
> They've accomplished
> more than Wolff ever could dream of. But, I suppose he has a family to
> feed, too, and the only way to do it is to insult, offend,
> draw caricatures
> instead of real people. One thing I will say for all the people at CMP
> involved in Netguide in the early days--they were trying, and
> sure they made
> mistakes. But so what? Everyone screws up. May Wolff be able
> to retire on
> the royalties of his book, or live off his lawyer wife. One
> sure thing--ain't
> nobody gonna want to be *his* business partner. Burn those
> bridges, Mike!

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