He shorted Internet stocks, believing, correctly, that most of these were wildly inflated.
People who tried to cash in by shorting Internet stocks in 1998 or 1999 got burned.
It became six short Internet videos (the first was released in August) with inspirational titles like "Rise" and "Hope," as well as the commercial.
At the same time, he is willing to buck conventional wisdom, as he did in 1999 when he shorted Internet stocks.
[Page C2.] Credit Managers Holding the Cash With the capital markets closed to cash-short Internet companies, bullish analysts no longer hold the key to a company's ability to raise money.
On the consulting side, many cash-short Internet companies may want to pay for consulting services with stock or stock options -- arrangements that, in the firm's current structure, would raise the kind of conflicts so troublesome to regulators.
The venture's founders, all in their 20s and 30s, had largely worked as comedic actors, scriptwriters and directors at Brazilian television networks, but they chafed at the industry's creative limitations, viewing short Internet videos as a medium in which they could express themselves freely.
Creamed by shorting Internet stocks, yet still unable to bring himself to buy them, he couldn't stand that they kept going up and up.
Ma said that it's a difficult topic, explaining that China has a relatively short Internet history compared to the US and Silicon Valley (he notes that Europe is in a similar situation).
And unlike many of the other camcorders that target Internet users, JVC's GZ-MS100 provides an impressive array of full-fledged camcorder features that give it the versatility to do more than shoot short Internet videos.
