[bdcravens]

And yet many of the tech incumbents in today's world came out of that era.

[relaxing]

Name them.

1. Amazon 2. Google 3. Salesforce 4. ???

One that actually sold things. One that was legitimately sector-defining. One that wasn’t a B2C dotcom.

[bdcravens]

eBay, VMWare, Akamai, Paypal, to name a few.

[relaxing]

actually sold things, not a dotcom, b2b infrastructure, legitimately sector defining

the companies that survived the bust weren’t the ones doing the land grab shenanigans

[mvkel]

I mean, given your very specific filter, how many companies exist today that were formed in the last decade would be on the list? Stripe?

[blitzar]

And yet many of the tech failures came out of that era.