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by simonw 119 days ago
Mark Cuban sold broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7bn

It was a bit more than a domain name - they had 330 employees and $13.5 million in revenue for a quarter - but that acquisition was definitely peak dot-com boom.

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paul graham sold a bunch of buggy lisp macros to yahoo too for a few billion. Wild times.
thanks!

i would love another bubble. i feel like tech has been in a corner for going on ten years now (covid spike was so brief). it's so concentrated in ai it sucks up everything.