SOME HOWLERS ARE WORTH A LAUGH! While at Élan I worked with a very smart consultant called Pam Wesley. She asked me if I would invest in her fiancé’s startup. I looked at the biz plan, but felt it was simply a jumble sale with nothing to protect it, and declined. Not long after, Pierre Omidya, her fiancé, became the eBay billionaire after getting the plan that I trashed funded. Oops!