Re: [UUG/MLUG] The Linux Expo speaker is now a very wealthy man...

[Paul Saab <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Move to the valley if you want to get in on an IPO.  One of the
guys at work was in on the VA-Linux IPO and made $150,000 in one
day.  It is all in who you know and who lets you in on their
friends/family offering.

paul

Michael (EMAIL:PROTECTED) wrote:
> If all these guys are becoming million/billion'ares why won't they give me a
> lil? Heck I'd appreciate a couple hundred dollars. Maybe get my electric
> bill payed off before I end up sitting cold in the dark.. or the phone
> bill.. or the rent.. or food.. wii I wish someone would let me join their
> IPO at $.04 a share. I'd sell my cans and bottles and invest the cash in
> stocks so I could earn some money too. :P Lets convince these guys to build
> a geek city where we can all live and code and do hippy-like things in
> commune style and they foot the bill. :)
> 
> 
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:11:22 -0600 (CST), EMAIL:PROTECTED wrote:
> 
> >  
> >  Eric S. Raymond is on the board of VA Linux, which floated yesterday.
> >  I was forced to miss the talk, and I really wish I had seen it after
> >  I read his essay on becoming hugely and unexpectedly wealthy over
> >  at slashdot...
> >  
> >  jking
> >  
> >  
> 
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