To be fair, Amazon's stock tanked over 90% in the next 18 months: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=amazon+market+cap+from+2000+to+2002 http://www.wolframalp

To be fair, Amazon's stock tanked over 90% in the next 18 months: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=amazon+market+cap+from+2000+to+2002 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=amazon+market+cap+from+... Amazon is a great company now but anyone who invested when that article was written wasn't made whole until 2007.