I was working at a startup south of Market in SF during the dot-com boom and bust. Industry Standard, the TechCrunch of its day, had a billboard with an electro

I was working at a startup south of Market in SF during the dot-com boom and bust. Industry Standard, the TechCrunch of its day, had a billboard with an electronic tech news ticker that loomed large over the neighborhood and, TJ Eckleburg-like, over the startup scene at large. The day in 2001 when, walking to work, I saw that sign being dismantled was, for me, the day the dot-com era died.