Prices kept soaring every day, from £130 a share to £1,000, with insiders making huge paper profits.
At that price his paper profit would be close to $22 million.
More than 2.7 million water investors made a paper profit of nearly £400.
Mom and Dad lose millions in paper profits they've never had a chance to enjoy.
"People lost an awful lot of paper profits," he said.
Then the employee would have paid taxes on a paper profit that vanished later.
But it was paper profit only, the company had debts of nearly four million more.
But at the end of 1996, he had already accumulated $10 million in paper profits.
At current prices, Comcast has a paper profit of more than $500 million.
If the market price was $10, the discount automatically gave the executive a $300,000 paper profit.