> traveling for business almost never generates more revenues
This is not true at all. If you are selling expensive software to enterprises (or organizations of any kind), the only effective way to do it is to travel to their office and give an in person demo.
At least the author acknowledges he didn't deserve to make any money. If he had deployed his deal making skills for a company that actually created value, he would have ended up making a ton of money. This assumes it wasn't just the dot com euphoria driving the deals of course.
This is not true at all. If you are selling expensive software to enterprises (or organizations of any kind), the only effective way to do it is to travel to their office and give an in person demo.
At least the author acknowledges he didn't deserve to make any money. If he had deployed his deal making skills for a company that actually created value, he would have ended up making a ton of money. This assumes it wasn't just the dot com euphoria driving the deals of course.