RE: UKNM: Burn Rate

[Cait Hurley]

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: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Paul

> Murphy

> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:45 AM

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [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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