Former boss told me a similar story from the first dotcom. He worked at Sun, things were looking great, a bunch of people vested and were paper millionaires. Tw

Former boss told me a similar story from the first dotcom. He worked at Sun, things were looking great, a bunch of people vested and were paper millionaires. Two days later the market imploded and they were wiped out. He was one of the few who actually sold their equity straight away. Almost everyone else on his team now had a huge tax bill and nothing to pay it with. They went from thinking they were millionaires to bankrupt in less than a week.