I don't think so. I mean the closest he got was that X2 or whatever of his and that was just the whole Internet Bubble concept: "What about a bank ... BUT ON THE INTERNET?!" Everybody was asking exactly that question for any conceivable thing. "What about pet supplies ... BUT ON THE INTERNET?!" "What about books ... BUT ON THE INTERNET?!" "What about pornography ... BUT ON THE INTERNET?!"

It didn't take a lot of thought to spin up an Internet company in that time; investors were looking for all kinds of places to burn money.