[irishcoffee]

> In the 90s the same argument was directed at this new thing called the internet, and those who placed a bet on it being a fad ended up being forgotten by history.

Allow me to introduce you to the dot-com boom, where everyone who bet on the internet went broke.

[aworks]

The Google founders did ok.

[irishcoffee]

Google raised only a single large round of institutional funding before going public, with the investors contributing $12.5 million

I can be much more specific about “everyone” if you’d like.