Go For Broke is a podcast series about historic bubbles, the irrational enthusiasm that creates them, and the lessons we’ve learned (and... more
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In Land of the Giants: The Google Empire, Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary and Big Technology's Alex Kantrowitz explore how a company... more
Pets.com. Webvan. Kozmo.com. All these companies met their demise when the bubble burst. But their ideas live on today, in... more
Dot-com companies attracted a lot of people interested in working in exciting new businesses with a start-up mentality. From bike... more
Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com bubble. But other forces brought the mania to... more
Before MySpace and Facebook, there was BlackPlanet. BlackPlanet.com, a social media site targeted to Black users, was immediately popular when... more
To examine the start of the dot-com bubble, we go back to 1995, the year technology became a part of... more
What many of us remember of the dot-com era of the late 90s and 2000 were the ads, the hype.... more
Go For Broke is a new series about those moments in history when people get way too confident in a... more