few years later, as I predicted, the company collapsed. DLJ was sued for selling stock in a company it knew was rotten, and I had to defend my opinion before a roomful of lawyers. DLJ depicted me as an idiot who had no idea what he was doing, which explained why no one listened to me. The plaintiffs portrayed me as a genius savant, who saw what all of DLJ’s higher-paid professionals had missed. The plaintiffs won.
