I worked for etoys.com in London and Santa Monica. Was worth $6bn at peak market cap and got delisted after dropping from $80 a share to below a buck. I survive

I worked for etoys.com in London and Santa Monica. Was worth $6bn at peak market cap and got delisted after dropping from $80 a share to below a buck. I survived multiple layoffs. Ran their warehouse management software for Europe. Lots of people got screwed. Big tax bills after exercising options and not selling and watching it drop. Family investing and losing everything. The perl community was fairly invested in etoys because we were a big Perl Apache and MySQL shop. Met my wife there. Was fun during the good times but layoffs suck and so does having the job market shrink. Taught my wife and I what not to do and how to run a lean but growing biz. Today we run a self funding company of 40 people in the cybersecurity space. So it all worked out just fine.