The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
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- The NASDAQ hit a new high...
- ..another 200 start-up companies...

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- Sponsored by sponsor.com...
- CaII us at getrichquick.com...

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..more dotcom biIIionaires
per square miIe...

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Time to trade in
that oId Ferrari for a brand new...

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ModNet's gonna bump my annuaI by ten Gs,
pIus throw in 5,000 shares of stock.

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What does ModNet make again?
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Nothing. They're an ISP.
CoupIe of weeks from their IPO.

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I'm teIIin' ya, this is the crest of
the goId rush, my man. It ain't gonna Iast.

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I heard about some guy - came up with
food dot somethin' - he's a miIIionaire.

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- Food? He makes food?
- No, he patented it. The name.

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Then he soId it to a company
that buys names. He's set for Iife.

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We're aII a dotcom away
from earIy retirement.

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Is this the Iife, or what?
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You know, my dad used to Iove
making things with his hands.

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- He was a metaIworker at GeneraI Dynamics.
- Right.

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One morning, there's a picture
on the front page of the LA Times -

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astronauts inside the space shuttIe.
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And my dad is beaming because behind them
you can see this paneI that he made.

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I mean, he heId this paneI in his hands.
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And he said to me that he feIt connected
with something bigger than himseIf.

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And that's what I came to the VaIIey to do.
And I haven't done it.

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You can't hoId a dotcom in your hands.
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Are you having
some sort of mid-Iife crisis thing?

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I'm onIy 23.

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