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Subject: Small World in the NY Times Posted by: Philhelmina - [8872511] Thu, Sep 28, 09:16 Did anyone else read the article in yesterday's (September 27th) New York Times? The Times does a weekly feature where it presents a bio and tries to elicit some wisdom from corporate chieftains. This week it chose Mark Jacobstein, chief executive of Small World. The article includes some anecdotes about Small World's beginnings (started in the living room of his apartment on West 89th Street) and its growth (took four and a half months to get a T1 connection). The article ends with him offering a pearl of business wisdom: "hire people bigger than yourself," a comment which, I should point out, is consistent with earlier suspicion on these boards that Guru is actually a Small World employee. Hmmm.... | ||||||
| 1 | walk ID: 104739 Thu, Sep 28, 10:17 |
I can't believe I missed it! I get the NY Times each day and actually read a good deal of it...time to go the web-site and find the article. And Guru does not work for smallworld -- geesh! - walk | |||||
| 2 | walk ID: 104739 Thu, Sep 28, 10:23 |
Motherfickers! NY Times changed their web-site so that in order to look at an old article, you have to pay $2.50 to "buy it." This is absurd. Oh well. - walk | |||||
| 3 | Mark L ID: 4444938 Thu, Sep 28, 10:33 | The more you deny that Guru is a Smallworld employee, the more I know that it is true. Come clean: you saw him playing wiffle ball when you made The Trip!! | |||||
| 4 | walk ID: 104739 Thu, Sep 28, 11:04 |
That is too funny, Mark L....! Nice memory. Yeah, I wonder if they still use that back room for wiffle ball. Somehow I doubt it. - walk | |||||
| 5 | Philhelmina ID: 107142012 Thu, Sep 28, 11:36 |
Hey Walk, Here's the location: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/27/technology/27BOSS.html I just accessed it for free. I'm surprised there's no mention of this on the Small World site. Oversight, or envy towards the bossman, or humility? | |||||
| 6 | walk ID: 438452811 Thu, Sep 28, 11:50 |
Thank YOU, Philhelmina....! It was dicey...they asked for a subscriber name and password, but I registered with NY Times.com about 3 years ago and still have that info. I am now printing the FREE article. You're a mensch... Like Jacobstein, I also grew up playing strat(o-matic); best game there ever was (and is still kicking around). Too bad the article is really like just about him and his worldview and not a little more about the company. Too bad he also did not surround himself with more people willing to communicate, like Mr. Mathis, until the year 2000. :-) walk | |||||
| 7 | biliruben ID: 88101720 Thu, Sep 28, 12:04 |
Thanks for the link, big P. What did they ask for, an autobiography in a thousand words or less? I liked the story about the "fan ban". Rochester rough? Growing up in Buffalo, I always thought of it as a suburb. | |||||
| 8 | walk ID: 104739 Thu, Sep 28, 12:17 |
Yeah, biliruben, but Kodak and Xerox are going down the tuuuuuuuuubes. - walk | |||||
| 9 | saber34 ID: 278102815 Thu, Sep 28, 15:10 | NY Times, now there is some good liberal reading. | |||||
| 10 | KevinL ID: 52463114 Thu, Sep 28, 15:13 | NY Times, liberal or not, at least they get one thing right. They advertise at Rotoguru.com | |||||
| 11 | Adam's G-men ID: 258222114 Thu, Sep 28, 15:29 | hey Saber, what's wrong with being a liberal? | |||||
| 12 | walk ID: 104739 Thu, Sep 28, 15:39 |
Would you rather have a nice conservative newspaper? Last I read in the Times sports page, they did not have any views on capital punishment, abortion, big gov't vs. state's rights, the boy scouts, school prayer, and whether it was appropriate for Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich (sp?) to swap wives? - walk | |||||
| 13 | Beta Alpha Sigma ID: 33638268 Thu, Sep 28, 15:59 |
best campaign statement in history-if you want to live like a Republican vote like a Democrat. keep it plain harry truman. | |||||
| 14 | biliruben ID: 88101720 Thu, Sep 28, 17:55 |
I'm hard pressed to see a difference any more. Can't even remember which bumbling beast represents which executor of big-business's interests. Now if they would only let Nader debate. THAT would be entertainment! Wait! Football. Um... | |||||
| 15 | Guru ID: 330592710 Thu, Sep 28, 19:08 | Don't tell me I need to add a Politics forum! | |||||
| 16 | Baldwin ID: 25440222 Thu, Sep 28, 20:31 |
You add it and I just lost the little spare time this forum and my fantasy teams leave me. Yes there is something wrong with papers which pretend to be bastions of objectivity and 'the paper of record' harboring secret a agenda. A good example of the NYT's perfidy was during the deliberate starvation of several million Kulaks [small farmers who owned their land] the NYT had a famous reporter visiting 'Potemkin villages' there and for all intents and purposes covering up this situation. This creeps photo last I heard still holds a place of honor at the NYT. Walk I'm a big fan of Real Mensch [E-zine] but always wondered what *Mensch* meant exactly. | |||||
| 17 | sam man ID: 284391118 Fri, Sep 29, 02:25 | Saw this link and had to respond. I actually grew up and went to school with Jacobstein. Smart kid - he created a cool football game on our cheap high scholl mainframe computers. Smallworld has been fun for the past year, but the games need to innovate because the thing is getting stale and predicatble. That said, I never remember Mark making all-county in baseball, and, as for the "rough" aspect, well, you just couldn't be frontin' - it wasn't really that violent for an inner-city school. | |||||
| 18 | walk ID: 104739 Fri, Sep 29, 09:03 |
Mensch = nice person! - walk | |||||
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