The dot-com bubble was a period during which rampant speculation and bullish investment led to the overvaluation (and subsequent crash) of the young internet technology industry on Wall Street.

Of all the dot-com companies that went bust, pets.com might be the most famous example. After losing $147 million in just nine months in 2000, the company’s business model was famously flawed.

The years 2000 to 2002, when the bottom fell out of the dot-com industry and hundreds of Internet-based companies went bankrupt. According to Kara Swisher in "Burn Book," a 2024 tell-all about the ...