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Elad Gil

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I am a serial entrepreneur obsessed with technology and startups. Click to read Elad Blog, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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End of Cycle?

One sign that technology markets often exhibit at the tail end of a cycle is a fast diversification of the types of startups getting funded. For example, following the core internet boom of the late 90s (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, PayPal), in early 2000 and 2001 there was a sudden diversification and investment into P2P…