The days of private helicopters and entire sales teams taking weekend junkets are dying, along with the multimillion-dollar parties.
Yes, we all burned through money on stupid things like television ads (too bad Purple Cow hadn't been written yet or we'd know better) and million dollar parties, but at least it was a learning experience, right?
And you know the parties, the dollar parties every Friday?
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, the daughter of wealthy parents who created a multimillion-dollar party planning business called Party Pieces, does not conform to many Americans' idea of a commoner.
Recently, there was a million-dollar party in the Hamptons in his honor.
The American authorities do not want to be seen as the spoilers of what could be a billion-dollar party for the industrial park.
There was, for example, the million-dollar party Mrs. Steinberg gave for her husband's 50th birthday in 1989, at which models dressed up to look like Mr. Steinberg's favorite old masters' paintings.
It's like a quarter billion dollar party.
But Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr has a better way of putting it: "I'm thinking of it like it's a quarter-billion dollar party".
This was the dollar party era, pay a dollar to get in, grind on the wall and all that.
