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"He is best known for his leadership of Dialog and its subsequent 95% share price drop in 2000" - well that's kind of a brutal biography there.

Powa does seem to me to have all the hallmarks of a full-vaporware company intended to scam as much funding as possible before the bubble bursts.

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"Wagner became known for becoming a CEO of a public company in his 20s which is even more impressive given at the time he was 31"

Someone's had fun writing that biography

That's probably not that fair to lead the page with - if you read the rest of the wikipedia article you'll see that he founded Dialog in 1984 when he was 21 and it went public 10 years later. It looks like he made some major mistakes later on and during the dot-com crash, but building and running a multi-billion dollar company for 16 years is better than 99.9% of HN users achievements.

I wouldn't chalk off Powa's failure to one person.

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