often attributive
: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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The similarities between today’s AI boom and the late ’90s dot-com bubble are striking.
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Salman Khan, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Near the height of the dot-com boom, AOL’s market value reached nearly $164 billion in 2000.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
Unlike the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, when a flood of companies went public, today’s AI startups can stay private for longer given the constant investment from venture capital funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and other tech investors.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2025
In the decades that followed those peaks, the stock market sank like a stone: The Great Depression of the 1930s, and the dot-com bust and Great Recession of the 2000s.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2025
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Salman Khan, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Near the height of the dot-com boom, AOL’s market value reached nearly $164 billion in 2000.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
Unlike the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, when a flood of companies went public, today’s AI startups can stay private for longer given the constant investment from venture capital funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and other tech investors.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2025
In the decades that followed those peaks, the stock market sank like a stone: The Great Depression of the 1930s, and the dot-com bust and Great Recession of the 2000s.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2025
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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