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

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.

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

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

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?

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