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Explain It to Me

Go For Broke: Inside the Dot-Com Bubble

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Go For Broke is a new narrative series from Epic Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network exploring the 2000 dot-com bubble... and what happened when the bubble popped. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/31ovruD Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34WWNZI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here in the weeds, we try hard to focus on rational arguments and thoughtful nuanced points of view,

0:05.0

but we all know that people are not always all that rational.

0:09.0

As soon as people get excited about big shiny ideas that don't really have much substance,

0:13.0

and sometimes those ideas get so big that they eventually implode.

0:16.0

And that's what a new podcast series from the Vox Media Podcast Network is all about.

0:20.0

It's called Go For Broke, it's a podcast series about historic bubbles,

0:24.0

the irrational enthusiasm that creates them, and what happens when those financial bubbles pop.

0:29.0

The first season, which is out right now, explores the dot com bubble of the late 1990s,

0:34.0

is one of my favorite episodes in sort of economic and social history.

0:38.0

And just a great show.

0:39.0

So the season digs into the true story of the venture capital, the aggressive marketing,

0:44.0

and the irrational hype that led to the big market crash of 2000,

0:47.0

and how the bad decisions of the early years of the internet still impact us today.

0:52.0

So we're going to share the first episode of Go For Broke with you right now.

0:55.0

Give it a listen and then go subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

0:59.0

Go For Broke.

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Go For Broke.

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Go For Broke.

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