Inspired by recent attendance at a lecture on the dot com industry, I decided to return to the scene of the most spectacular dot com crash of them all: boo.com. Internet literature still abounds on the story - after all who could fail to be intrigued by the story of two Swedish entrepreneurs who managed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars and end up with virtually nothing?
My favourite quote is from The Guardian:
For Malmsten, the fame he has achieved far outweighs the stigma of the collapse of boo. One person who knows him well said: ‘All he ever wanted was to meet beautiful women and go to parties. He’s got all that now.’
And everyone lived happily every after…
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