Overstock CEO Says 'My Bad'

Overstock.com (OSTK Quote) posted 64% revenue growth in the third quarter, but the online retailer's loss more than quadrupled, prompting effusive CEO Patrick Byrne to take the blame and say the results were his "bad."

Third-quarter revenue reached $169.3 million, up from $103.4 million a year ago. Overstock.com lost $14.2 million, or 75 cents a share, in the quarter. The Salt Lake City-based company had a loss of $3 million, or 16 cents a share, a year earlier.

"Q3 was rough," Byrne said in a prepared statement. "My bad. I bit off more technology projects than my colleagues could chew. The last bite, an [enterprise resource planning] implementation, was one bite too many, and we choked on it." ...