Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Formed the Web Age and Dot-Com Increase – Melissas Meals Freedom

And Caruso's New E book Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Formed the Web Age and Dot-Com Increase is out there for pre-order, to be launched on February 4, 2025.

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Dan requested me to jot down the foreword, which I fortunately did. See an excerpt explaining why I cherished studying this guide.

Bandwidth Foreword Excerpt

In April 2024, Dan requested me to have a look at his manuscript. I learn the introduction and, inside every week, the remainder of the guide. Studying it jogged my memory of locations the place my path crossed his, akin to Exodus buying Service Metrics (a Mobius funding), which returned our total first fund. After all, a number of years later, after the results of a horrifying merger with World Crossing, the mixed Exodus-World Crossing went bankrupt. Or, the day Howard Diamond, CEO of Company Software program (one other Mobius funding), walked into my workplace and mentioned, “Degree 3 is buying us for $125 million,” to which I mentioned, “Why the fuck would a telecom infrastructure firm purchase a software program reseller?” After which there have been tales Dan didn’t even know, just like the time I sat in Degree 3’s workplace in Broomfield, Colorado (5 minutes from my workplace in Superior, Colorado), in 2001, praying Degree 3 would purchase Interliant (a failing public firm I used to be co-chair of) for no different motive than Degree 3 had purchased different failing public corporations. And, no, Degree 3 didn’t purchase Interliant, and sure, Interliant did fail.

Earlier than studying BandwidthI noticed the Web Revolution by way of the lens of software program and Web corporations. I knew a few of the tales of Qwest, Enron, World Crossing, Degree 3, and others—however didn’t admire the main points and magnitude of the Bandwidth Increase and Bust. The adventurous tales of enterprise legends akin to Phil Anschutz, Craig McCaw, Jim Crowe, and even Carl Icahn have been thrilling to learn. The exploits of unhealthy actors akin to Joe Nacchio, Gary Winnick, and Bernie Ebbers have been much more exhilarating. Epic battles of hostile takeovers, botched enterprise plans, phoenixes rising from ashes, and entrepreneurs who persevered jogged my memory why I get a lot achievement from serving to start-ups change into massive successes and enduring corporations. And why I’m keen to struggle for any firm wherein I’m concerned.

As I learn, I additionally realized much more about Dan. I now know why so many individuals have sturdy emotions about Dan—some suppose he walks on water, whereas others want a giant wave would knock him over. On this guide, he brazenly shares the challenges he needed to overcome and the pivots he needed to make. At every step, he’s delightfully self-deprecating and conscious of what labored and what didn’t. I, for one, get pleasure from watching him frequently do extraordinary issues. Put me within the “Dan walks on water” camp.