{"id":1266,"date":"2004-09-28T23:17:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T04:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2004-09-28T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T04:17:13","slug":"lessons-from-the-dot-com-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/28\/lessons-from-the-dot-com-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from the Dot-Com Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I had a front row seat for the Internet Bubble, because I worked at Yahoo during 1998 and 1999. One day, when the stock was trading around $200, I sat down and calculated what I thought the price should be. The answer I got was $12. I went to the next cubicle and told my friend Trevor. &#8220;Twelve!&#8221; he said. He tried to sound indignant, but he didn&#8217;t quite manage it. He knew as well as I did that our valuation was crazy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/bubble.html\" target=\"_blank\">What the Bubble Got Right<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a front row seat for the Internet Bubble, because I worked at Yahoo during 1998 and 1999. One day, when the stock was trading around $200, I sat down and calculated what I thought the price should be. The answer I got was $12. I went to the next cubicle and told my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}