Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Formed the Web Age and Dot-Com Growth – Digital Digest

And Caruso’s New E-book Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Formed the Web Age and Dot-Com Growth is obtainable 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 beloved 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 per week, the remainder of the guide. Studying it jogged my memory of locations the place my path crossed his, resembling Exodus buying Service Metrics (a Mobius funding), which returned our whole first fund. After all, a number of years later, after the results of a horrifying merger with International Crossing, the mixed Exodus-International Crossing went bankrupt. Or, the day Howard Diamond, CEO of Company Software program (one other Mobius funding), walked into my workplace and stated, “Stage 3 is buying us for $125 million,” to which I stated, “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 Stage 3’s workplace in Broomfield, Colorado (5 minutes from my workplace in Superior, Colorado), in 2001, praying Stage 3 would purchase Interliant (a failing public firm I used to be co-chair of) for no different cause than Stage 3 had purchased different failing public corporations. And, no, Stage 3 didn’t purchase Interliant, and sure, Interliant did fail.

Earlier than studying BandwidthI noticed the Web Revolution via the lens of software program and Web corporations. I knew a few of the tales of Qwest, Enron, International Crossing, Stage 3, and others—however didn’t respect the main points and magnitude of the Bandwidth Growth and Bust. The adventurous tales of enterprise legends resembling Phil Anschutz, Craig McCaw, Jim Crowe, and even Carl Icahn had been thrilling to learn. The exploits of dangerous actors resembling Joe Nacchio, Gary Winnick, and Bernie Ebbers had 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 success from serving to start-ups change into massive successes and enduring corporations. And why I’m prepared to battle for any firm by which I’m concerned.

As I learn, I additionally realized much more about Dan. I now know why so many individuals have robust emotions about Dan—some suppose he walks on water, whereas others want an enormous 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, take pleasure in watching him frequently do extraordinary issues. Put me within the “Dan walks on water” camp.