Dotcom bubble (2000)

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When internet companies without revenue were worth billions. In March 2000 the bubble burst – the Nasdaq lost 78%. Many firms disappeared; some survivors like Amazon became giants.

The dotcom bubble was the euphoria around internet companies in the late 1990s. Anything with ".com" in its name shot up on the stock market – regardless of whether the company made a profit or not.

Absurd examples:

• Pets.com (online pet shop): $300m market value, made a $147m loss. Went bust 9 months after its IPO.
• Webvan (grocery delivery): $1.2bn market value, never profitable. Bust.
• Amazon: the share price fell from $107 to $7. It survived – and today is worth over $2 trillion.

The crash: from March 2000 the bubble burst. The Nasdaq lost 78% of its value in 2 years. Over 5 trillion dollars of market value vanished into thin air. Hundreds of thousands of IT jobs were lost.

Lesson: hype alone doesn't make a good investment. At some point, companies need real profits.

Did you know? It took the Nasdaq 15 years – until 2015 – to get back to its pre-crash level of March 2000.

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