there s an old interview question that the great barbara walters had teed up. what kind of tree would you be? for some reason, i asked martha this question. there is an old interview question. what kind of tree would you be. for some reason i asked this question. martha answered, i am the beechtree. the beach is the mother of all trees. the beechtree has a smooth skin but it s very hard and impenetrable. because i m a mother, all the other trees are underneath me. it is impenetrable. martha started planning the comeback the moment she was arrested. says she is ready for jail now. today in what was one of the more surreal conferences, she said she is ready for jail. thank you for coming here on such short notice. advertisers upset and attorneys telling her what her plans are. it is a long time to eat away at a company. the only way to reclaim my life and quality of life with certainty is to serve my sentence and surrender to authorities so i can return as soon as p
corporate titan no, you cannot say this. by being the most intimidating homemaker on earth. martha stewart became an icon of design, icon of cooking. but there were always people who wanted to be against martha stewart. we re looking for imperfections. we re looking for cracks. we re looking for the fall. we re here to announce criminal charges against martha stewart. [chatter] this year s ipo activity so far is about $9 billion. i think it s a mania going on right now. the 1999 initial public offering market blasted off with internet frenzy. some of these valuations are in another galaxy. i ve never really seen anything like this. so at this time in 1999, this was the dot-com boom. this was the heyday of initial public offerings, ipos, on wall street, right? so there was money flowing into these companies, and martha stewart was a household name with a storyline that wall street could understand and get behind. she s in the middle of an ever-expanding martha universe, righ