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I am your host, Michael Coval, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

I want to take you back in time to a point in time that you may or may not have familiarity with,

but I'll try to describe it.

Netscape went public in the summer of 1995.

Mark Andresen, the famed venture capitalists now, started with Netscape, the first browser.

Of course, Netscape lost, but Andresen's done pretty damn good.

But it kicked off the dot-com bubble.

At the time, I was living in Northern Virginia, about 15 miles outside Washington, D.C.

At in nowhere, tech companies went gangbusters.

Companies like America Online, UUNet, micro strategy.

Every person that I knew at that time in my 20s were dying to work with these companies or had jobs

with these companies. Now, let's be honest, many of the people that worked inside these companies

at the highest echelons, very smart people. But these companies were not really that special,

honestly. They were the first wave of the dot com stuff, and they rode the wave.

I can't tell you how many really, really dumb people were involved with these companies that I knew,

that worked for these companies.

It was a mania.

It was euphoria.

People just thought money was going to fall from the trees.

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