The Next Wave of Websites--DeWese

Well, the venture capitalists, knowing a good thing when they saw it, wrote big checks to all the smart guys for amounts like $17 million, $22 million and even $58 million. You know—a little seed money to get things started. Getting things started meant redecorating a warehouse in contemporary glass and steel, outfitting elaborate workout facilities, buying every employee his own antique Wurlitzer juke box and getting go-carts for people to race up and down the halls. Why not? They all had stock options and would soon be rich.