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San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Silicon Valley Dispatches Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2000 by Cassidy, Mike
Aug. 10--ARROGANT AND INVINCIBLE: THE SILICON VALLEY BREED: From start to finish we should have seen the Patrick Naughton story coming.
We should have seen it as clearly as I saw the sleek, golden Mercedes racing up to my bumper on Highway 101 Wednesday morning.
Nice car. Good-looking man driving. The package had the look that said, "I spend half my day grooming my hair and the other half grooming my car."
The Mercedes pilot was a grown man who drove with the abandon of a teenager. He was a man who believed the rules didn't apply. He was arrogant and invincible. He swerved around me, cut off another car, shot to the right lane, rode another bumper, swooped around the pickup only to exit 500 feet down the road. He had gotten to where he wanted...
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