>"I agree, mainstream media doesn't understand how much hackers are our era's Robber Barons (or Industrial Statesmen, take your pick). Expect a handful of IPO's and at least one billionaire graduate within the next ten years. I expect Y Combinator graduates and their related companies will have billions of dollars of impact on our economy over this period of time."
I don't think that applies to the guys at the Fool, especially the Rule Breakers. David Gardner got the following he has by investing in AOL in '95, Yahoo! in '96, Amazon.com in '97, Ebay in '98 and telling the world about his picks before he bought them. He's been far ahead of the curve for a long, long time. More recently he's had a number of 5-bagger plus investments in a variety of tech fields.
He's utterly crushed the market over a long haul, done it publicly, and done it almost exclusively in technology.
I don't think that applies to the guys at the Fool, especially the Rule Breakers. David Gardner got the following he has by investing in AOL in '95, Yahoo! in '96, Amazon.com in '97, Ebay in '98 and telling the world about his picks before he bought them. He's been far ahead of the curve for a long, long time. More recently he's had a number of 5-bagger plus investments in a variety of tech fields.
He's utterly crushed the market over a long haul, done it publicly, and done it almost exclusively in technology.