TIP777: The 1999 Dot-Com Bubble w/ Clay Finck
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network
Stig Brodersen
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.7 | On today's episode, we're exploring one of the most dramatic chapters in financial history, |
| 0:08.2 | the dot-com boom in the unraveling that followed, as told through Roger Lonestein's book, |
| 0:13.5 | Origins of the Crash. |
| 0:14.9 | For those who didn't live through it like myself, the late 1990s can feel almost mythical, |
| 0:20.2 | a time when new technologies seemed destined |
| 0:23.1 | to rewrite every rule of business and investing. Stocks soared, IPOs doubled in a day, |
| 0:29.2 | and Wall Street, corporate insiders, and everyday investors all got swept up in the belief |
| 0:34.9 | that a new era had arrived. But behind the headlines and the hype |
| 0:39.2 | were deeper structural problems, such as hugely misaligned incentives, questionable accounting |
| 0:45.0 | practices, and an obsession with short-term stock price movements. Lonestein traces how all |
| 0:51.2 | this came to ahead from the manic rise of internet companies to the |
| 0:55.3 | stunning collapse of Enron, reminding us just how fragile markets can become when |
| 1:00.8 | speculation overtakes discipline. |
| 1:03.4 | In this episode, we're going to walk through the causes, the characters, and the cascading |
| 1:08.1 | consequences of the crash, and more importantly, the timeless lessons |
| 1:12.3 | individual investors can take from it. These events reshaped corporate governance, transformed |
| 1:17.8 | regulation, and exposed the system's vulnerabilities when greed, leverage, and new technology |
| 1:23.7 | collide. So with that, I hope you enjoy today's episode on The Origins of the Crash by Roger Lowenstein. |
| 1:33.6 | Since 2014 and through more than 180 million downloads, we've studied the financial markets and read the books that influence self-made billionaires the most. |
| 1:43.8 | We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected. |
| 1:46.9 | Now for your host, Playfink. |
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