Around Quote by Julie Wainwright

Whenever people think of the dot-com collapse, they think of a handful of companies that epitomized the era, and Pets.com... is always up there,…

— Julie Wainwright

I said the only way I would join Pets.com was if I could get Amazon to invest, and I did. I knew that anything…

— Julie Wainwright

When the internet came up, scores of companies were created. But many of them collapsed during the dot.com bubble.

— Ashok Soota

In the bubble that was dot-com 1.0 emerged Google, Amazon, and some of the most valuable companies on the planet. They were successful because…

— Brad Garlinghouse

The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.

— Adam Cohen

It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing... with employers. Oops.…

— Eric Ries

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making…

— John Doerr

Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring…

— Evan Williams

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up…

— Jack Bruce

I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J.…

— Bill Ackman

Newfangled online sites like 'Business Insider' and 'Huffington Post' built businesses they later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars by ripping off the…

— Adam Lashinsky

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

— William Shatner