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High-Tech Repo Man Cleans Up Wrecked Dot-Coms in San Jose, Calif., Area.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2001
By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 14--Repo man Marty Pichinson swaggers down the deserted hallway of Zoho.com in Sunnyvale.
Zoho, a Web site that serves hotels, is barely alive. And Pichinson has arrived to grab and sell its assets on behalf of creditors. Coffee cup in hand, he marches from room to room with three haggard Zoho employees in tow, inspecting the debris -- computers, golf clubs, electric dart boards -- left after 240 layoffs.
"I'm the clean-up man in `Pulp Fiction,' " says Pichinson, referring to a movie character who mops up after a bloody shooting.
When an employee confides that the company hasn't paid June's $105,000 rent to the landlord, Repo Man grins....
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