A surprisingly large number of the 2000 Super Bowl ads were for companies that didn't have products, or whose products were never really explicable to the public. Some kind of spammish email marketing company, a website for announcing your wedding, and of course Pets.com, which had a working site but not a working business model. I remember watching the game and thinking, 'God, I'm glad I got out of the dot-com world.'

Instead, I went into the telecom sector. With a specialty in Sun Microsystems work. Evidently I am awful at being prescient.