The assessment report on Wall Street and the front-page news about AT&T and IP telephony were all deliberately leaked by Byte Company.
They were preparing for their IPO and, of course, wanted to ensure Byte Company appeared on Wall Street's radar.
Mary Mikel wanted to write an analytical report on Silicon Valley's software industry, and just then Byte Company stepped through the door.
With Dean's intentional cooperation, she obtained a lot of "inside" information.
Of course, to attract the experienced Wall Street elites, Dean needed to throw out a lot of new concepts.
It turned out that Mary Mikel, the young analyst, quite liked these "unorthodox" pieces of information.
She needed something eye-catching, and the assessment report on Byte Company was the perfect lead-in.
This resulted in the meticulously crafted industry analysis report in The Wall Street Journal.
