In this podiobook: Larry Lazard, CEO of hackoff.com, takes his company public and watches its stock price soar and collapse. Following a hostile takeover attempt, Lazard is found dead in his office of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.Author Tom Evslin, a serial CEO, also took a company public in the Internet bubble and fought off hostile takeover attempts in the subsequent rubble. Unlike Larry, Evslin lived to tell what may be the definitive story of those strange times.The mystery ...
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: This episode of hackoff.com is the conclusion. All is revealed!
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: We hear the audio of Ahmed returning the Lucite to Larry and giving him the good news about Yasir. But the meeting doesn't end well.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: Mark and Dom have a hypothetical discussion about mushrooms.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: Donna Langhorne and her husband Francis are overheard hatching a new plan.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: Details of hackoff.com's defense against the antihack hostile takeover attempt emerge from Dom's audio.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: There IS sound to go with the video of Larry's office.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: There is a surprising revelation about Gotcha, the hack that Larry went to jail for.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: Dom has to go through a very tight place to get back into his comfort zone.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: The mouse helps the lion.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: Dom's international communication continues - but his local communication is suddenly disrupted.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: Dom hacks deep into the night. A search engine of his own invention sees site that Google will never see.
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Endgame 4/5-4/7/03: From his hiding place, Dom watches the past.
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You've Got Mail 4/4/03 PM: Dom is on the lam but sends email to his pursuer.
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You've Got Mail 4/4/03 PM: Detective Cohen and Rachel discuss the video of Ahmed's visit to Larry and Larry's very strange reaction to what should have been good news.
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You've Got Mail 4/4/03 PM: Detective Mark Cohen and Rachel Roth meet in a midtown fern bar.
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You've Got Mail 4/4/03 PM: Detective Cohen and Donna Langhorne watch a video together but have a falling out.
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You've Got Mail 4/4/03 PM: Donna has an extraordinary piece of evidence she now feels she needs to show to Detective Cohen.
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You've Got Mail 4/4/03 PM: Now it's Donna Langhorne's turn to discuss VoIP with Detective Mark Cohen.
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You've Got Mail 4/4/03 PM: Detective Cohen and Dom Montain's discussion switches from backdoors to VoIP.
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You've Got Mail 4/4/03 PM: Detective Cohen and Dom Montain discuss backdoors.
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Ahmed's Business 4/4/03 AM: Ahmed Qali explains to Detective Cohen why his fingerprints are on the gun found in Larry's office. Their interview concludes.
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Ahmed's Business 4/4/03 AM: Ahmed Qali describes his last meeting with Larry Lazard. Detective Cohen doesn't believe him.
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Ahmed's Business 4/4/03 AM: Detective Cohen's interview of Ahmed Qali continues with an examination of Qali's past and current business.
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Ahmed's Business 4/4/03 AM: Detective Cohen's interview of Ahmed Qali continues with an examination of Ahmed's personal history.
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Ahmed's Business 4/4/03 AM: Detective Cohen begins his interview of Ahmed Qali.
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In Play, 2/26 - 5/28/02: Rachel has a surprise for Larry.
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In Play, 2/26 - 5/28/02: hackoff.com makes plans to outsource to Jenin Associates - not without some concerns.
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In Play, 2/26 - 5/28/02: Donna has a surprise for Larry.
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In Play, 2/26 - 5/28/02: Dom describes his meetings with Microsoft and Oracle as potential acquirers of hackoff.com.
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In Play, 2/26 - 5/28/02: Larry and Louise have dinner with banker Rachel and her boyfriend Ahmed.
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In Play, 2/26 - 5/28/02: hackoff.com and bankers Barcourt and Brotherson prepare to examine "strategic alternatives".
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Bear Hug, 2/19 - 2/25/02: hackoff.com responds to the bear hug.
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Bear Hug, 2/19 - 2/25/02: The hackoff.com board considers George Wrobly's takeover proposal.
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Bear Hug, 2/19 - 2/25/02: Larry gets a call from antihack CEO George Wrobly with a proposal.
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Bear Hug, 2/19 - 2/25/02: Larry and Donna talk to the analysts. It's not a happy call.
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Bear Hug, 2/19 - 2/25/02: The chat group chats and Larry doesn't like what he sees.
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Bear Hug, 2/19 - 2/25/02: hackoff.com prepares to announce disappointing quarterly results.
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The Half Life of Surprise: Nothing will ever be the same.
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9/11/01 - The Half Life of Surprise: Larry and Dom are in the crowded stairwells of the south tower.
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9/11/01 - The Half Life of Surprise: FAA:Hi. Boston Center TMU, we have a problem here.
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9/11/01 - The Half Life of Surprise: As oblivious as most of the rest of the world is to events in American skies, the bankers present their Power Point slides showing SWOTs (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) of both hackoff and antihack.
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9/11/01 - The Half Life of Surprise: Bankers have a proposal for hackoff.com and antihack. American Flight 11 from Boston is hijacked.
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9/11/01 - The Half Life of Surprise: The world goes about its business early on the morning of 9/11. The hackoff.com management team is on their way to a meeting in the World Trade Center.
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The Fall, 4/1 - 6/30/00: Larry, Donna, and Aaron discuss how to deal with the "possibility" of a weak quarter. The chat group has the last word in the last episode of chapter 9.
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The Fall, 4/1 - 6/30/00: Dom has a new product idea... even if the latest updates to the old one are late.
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The Fall, 4/1 - 6/30/00: Larry gets bad news at a hackoff staff meeting and reacts... badly.
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The Fall, 4/1 - 6/30/00: Donna and her husband have a serious discussion about the charges his firm bought against her company.
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The Fall, 4/1 - 6/30/00: hackoff.com is hit with a class action suit. Find out why this makes Donna Langhorne particularly angry in this episode.
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The Fall, 4/1 - 6/30/00: Joanne Ankers' career is in danger and Joseph Windaw takes defensive action.
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The Fall, 4/1 - 6/30/00: NASDAQ seems to be in freefall. Larry waits for the (green) shoe to drop.
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