Comments on: Roger McNamee, Bono buy a piece of Forbes http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Forbes Says Not Being Sold to the Russians - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121750 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:49:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121750 [...] but couldn’t get any facts about this deal. So I emailed Roger McNamee, who heads up Elevation Partners and is an investor in Forbes. His intervention got me a quick response. “Forbes absolutely denies this rumor, and has no [...]

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121749 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:53:30 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121749 hey david, how about taking some credit yourself. not bad for an old geezer ;-). and why are you reading blogs on your vacation.

]]> By: David Churbuck http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121748 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:18:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121748 How can anybody remember what employee “number” they were?

Anyway, you’re spot on as usual, Om. The unsung hero here is Tim Forbes who got the joke early on and stuck by it.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121747 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:34:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121747 jeff killen … he left a dot com in tatters wherever he went. brilliant.

]]> By: yegods http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121746 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:27:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121746 All true–but how can anyone forget the visionary brilliance of the CueCat or Jeff Killeen’s sure and steady grasp of the future of the Internet? Good times.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121745 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:13:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121745 Yeah mr #13. You are spot on. Not to forget HR Celeste.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121744 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:13:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121744 Oh no, it is NetObjects. That dumb web page design software. Not that NetGravity ever worked either.

]]> By: Employee #13 http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121743 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:32:45 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121743 i think several very important people are being forgotten as the real drivers of the success of f.com. two words: Steve Johnson

]]> By: Employee #20 http://gigaom.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121742 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:23:21 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/roger-mcnamee-bono-buy-a-piece-of-forbes/#comment-121742 NetGravity…not NetObjects. Good times.

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