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San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Silicon Valley Swing Shift Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2000
Jun. 2--SOME OF THE VALLEY'S SUCCESS STORIES ARE JUST IN THE CARDS: Cisco Systems is one of the valley's great success stories. The Swing Shift now knows why.
"Cisco probably uses more psychics than anywhere else," says Carla Winter, a tarot card reader who was giving readings at the recent RealNetworks party.
In ultra-rational Silicon Valley, palm readers are presented as entertainment, a joke. But given the rocky stock market, they're serious business. People will listen to anyone who talks about the future, even with dubious authority.
At the RealNetworks party, held in San Jose State's Event Center, 15 people lined up to see Winter, while the band Foo Fighters played. Dressed in scarves and hoop earrings like Stevie Nicks from the...
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