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253: Patrick Boyle - Lessons from Financial History and False Expectations in the Markets

Chat With Traders

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The Business Case Behind the Internet

I remember as a 20, 22 year old kind of looking at this and thinking like, who on earth is going to use a phone book? You know, it arrives at your home and you recycle it. Those things were going public. And I kind of wonder if the management of those companies knew that it was on the way out. If they had known they probably would have found a way of banging it up on the internet. It's a funny thing because in the last few years, like young people, sort of the same people as me, but today have been quite caught up in a lot of the crypto stuff and things like that. That's how I taught at that age as

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