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DoubleClick Burning in Bonfire of the Vanities
Posted by: Los Angeles Newsroom February 18, 2000 12:00 AMKevin J. O’Connor, the 38 year-old Chairman and CEO of controversial Internet advertising company DoubleClick, Inc., must feel like Sherman McCoy, the fictional star of Tom Wolfe’s famous novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.