2000 Initial Public Offering Internet Viral 
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Carpe Diem. Wide Adoption.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.
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