by Lori Gottlieb and Jesse Jacobs
In 2000, convinced that her stock options would make her rich, TV exec Gottlieb became editor-in-chief of Kibu.com , a Web portal for teen girls. After three months—and $22 million of somebody else's money—Kibu was toast. Disillusioned, Gottlieb and Jacobs, another dot-com casualty, compiled this oral history of that time when Old Media people were lured away from stable jobs by the promise of massages, Frappuccinos and office Ping-Pong. Unfortunately it reads like a long e-mail exchange between the authors and dozens of embittered dotcommers. (Perseus, $26)
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