Mark Mahaney, an internet analyst for 25 years, wrote a memoir to step back from daily markets and reflect on what he learned. He watched Amazon rise 166,000% and Netflix 45,000% since their IPOs, but missed opportunities with Yahoo and eBay that still sting.
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Things, Chris, and thanks for the kind words about the book. One is that I had been working for almost 25 years covering Internet stocks, and I wanted, partly just for my own purpose, I wanted to go back and kind of reflect on the last 25 years. There's a little bit of memoir in the book, and there's a little bit of step back and what did I really learn? And the process of writing a book helps you kind of step back out of the day to day of the financial markets and all of the distractions and necessary distractions that come with that. And I just thought, look, I've lived through the meteoric, absolutely meteoric rise of Amazon, up 166,000% since its IPO, and the rise of Netflix, up 45,000% since its IPO. And then some massive Mrs. Or shoulda couldas from Yahoo and ebay and real disaster.