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When the Dotcom Bubble Burst
The hunt for the next Microsoft created an era of excess that wasn't sustainable
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What went wrong for Yahoo
Yahoo let two future trillion-dollar companies get away. One of them twice.
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What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO
Linus Torvalds worked for them after he completed his degree, but left in 2003
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Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
People lined up around stores at midnight like they do for a new Apple product.
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Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack
He was also involved in taking the Pier 1 chain nationwide
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Microsoft's 1986 IPO
Its market cap hit $777 million and Bill Gates' net worth reached $350 million