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Can you name some example companies? I had thought that the .com implosion was more about consumer Internet sites (i.e. Portals) than business to business. Th
by theGnuMe 4y ago
Can you name some example companies? I had thought that the .com implosion was more about consumer Internet sites (i.e. Portals) than business to business.
There was a lot of VC funded advertising $$$ that went straight to Yahoo. The canonical examples being WebVan and pets.com
- ghaff 4y agoEMC, Sun Microsystems, Cisco... Where do you think all the companies selling to consumers got their (expensive) hardware from?
- theGnuMe 4y agoEMC, Sun and Cisco are basically still around in some form (Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010; Dell bough EMC in 2015 for $67 billion) and the .com implosion didn't nuke them.