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by jorgecurio 3738 days ago
> the deal". Mr Wagner, who claims to have a stellar record as a serial entrepreneur, was still telling everyone who would listen that his was a company that would be bigger than Google or Facebook one day. As recently as last October, he told Evan Davis on Radio 4's Bottom Line that the business had been valued at $2.7bn by its backers Wellington. Evan suggested that was a meaningless figure because Powa hadn't made any money yet. "We're a growth tech business," Mr Wagner replied, maintaining it was other people who had set that value.

holy crap this reads just like the interview with Pets.com in a 1999 edition of some PC magazine