Wavoid

From wave + -oid.

Wavoid (plural Wavoids)

1. (finance, informal) A person who believes (often fervently) that Wave Systems Corp. will be a financial success.
   • 1999 December 13, Danny Hakim, “Catching the Wave”, in SmartMoney:

     He created WAVX 101, an online "course" for fledgling Wavoids that is quite literally the book on Wave.

   • 2000 February 28, Danny Hakim, “Who Wants to Marry a Wavoid Multimillionaire?”, in SmartMoney:

     The Wavoids and Raging Bull's WAVX board are at the frontier of a still-evolving manifestation of modern investing life: the financial message board.

   • 2003 November 17, Noam Scheiber, “Organization Man: Joe Trippi Reinvents Campaigning”, in The New Republic:

     Joe Trippi--username "random1"--was also a Wavoid.

   • 2004 June 14, Scott Kirsner, “After 16 years of struggle, Wave awaits its big break”, in The Boston Globe:

     Through the boom and bust, when Wave's stock sold for $50 a share and when it sold for less than a buck, when the company was delisted from the Nasdaq in 1997 and then reinstated in 1999, the Wavoids have been predicting that Wave will be bigger than Intel, AOL, or Yahoo -- and searching for clues that Wave's software is about to become the gold standard of trusted computing, an indispensable part of the 150 million PCs shipped yearly.

   • 2004 August 14, Danny Hakim, “For a Reformed Wavoid, The Play's the Thing”, in The New York Times:

     At the height of the technology bubble, Wave Systems attracted a devoted throng of investors from across the country who called themselves Wavoids.

   • 2007 March 4, Danny Hakim, “That Ship Will Come In, Right?”, in The New York Times:

     The Wavoids say they believe that Wave’s moment has finally come — of course, they have always believed that Wave’s moment has finally come.

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