Copyright © 2003 LeeAnn Heringer
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| In 1997, I published “Objects of Code and Desire”, a poetry diary of the first six months of an Internet startup. This is the short poetic followup, the description of what happened to my piece of the “big long happy” which turned out to be neither long nor happy, but it was big. Our startup went IPO, we were rich, we were famous, the market dropped out of dot coms, 70-80 percent of them went bust, we weren’t rich, everyone hated us, even the people who didn’t know us. Our startup managed to survive, blooded and limping. But things get ugly when companies fall from grace, blame needs to be assigned, punishment must be meted out. I didn’t stick around. I went to another company, one I thought was large and stable enough to ride out the storm. I was mistaken. The economy worsened, I was laid off, I was unemployed, I found work. Fun while it lasted. To quote David Bowie, “we were heroes, just for one day”. |
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