And they aren't worrying too much about the technology-stock turmoil, which could make it harder to score big via initial public offerings. As for the inexperience rap, they point out that Bill Gates launched a pretty cool company before dropping out of Harvard as a junior. Aquarium's role model is CMGI Inc., the Andover, Mass., Internet conglomerate. After hanging up, Mr. Newman walks into Mory's, a wood-paneled dining club, for a summit with Messrs. Venech and Stern of Aquarium. At Yale, Mr. Newman is an Internet elder statesman, having founded a Web consulting firm in his freshman year that he has since sold, for an undisclosed sum.
Landlords are often eager to rent to tech companies in exchange for stock options in start-ups.
Mr. Newman asks how the business is going. The talk turns to future wealth. Finding 'More Chicks' Then come some musings on sexual inequality. Aquarium has received about 35 business plans from entrepreneurs looking for money, but not one from a woman. Aquarium has had some legal hassles lately.