Remember the Netscapes, he exhorts, the high-tech stars that gained fans, made paper millionaires of the early staff and then burned up in the heat of competition.
Steven Thompson is careful not to preach from the pulpit: He exhorts his congregants to vote but does not preach in favor of or against any specific candidate.
But as TIME's Person of the Year Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com continually exhorts anyone who listens, not even 99% customer satisfaction is good enough when it comes to cyber-fulfillment.
Charlie Ross has no mercy. as head auctioneer at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, he exhorts, implores and chides bidders into spending millions of dollars on the world's rarest vintage cars.
He now exhorts his listeners not to hazard the prosperity the Clinton years have brought them: a prosperity he means to consolidate by continuing his president's fiscal policies in almost every respect.