The kind who would mess up her father's perfectly good retirement. OK, the first time, in the early 1990s, it was to sign him on as chief executive of FTP Software, a company he eventually took public and became rich doing so. It's top entrepreneurs disappearing into the innards of venture capital firms. On Wednesday, it happened again. It's only human nature to boast of your triumphs and downplay your defeats.
Venture capitalists do it.
So do portfolio managers and stock columnists. Anyone who has ever signed up for a blind date knows something of humanity's skill at exaggeration. In the rush of video-game industry news, ranging from details about the November release of Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube to this week's arrival of Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, some good new games could easily be overlooked. Consider the good folks at Hormel. Sometimes what seems like a good idea turns out to be a bit flawed when you look at it more closely.