#222: Stock Disaster #6 -- DEC

Last week, Pip told the story of his stock disaster with AT &T. Today we go back again in tech history to a newly minted tech analyst in 1995 named Pip Coburn and his experience with Digital Equipment Corp.

Pip will say that the highlight of this episode is that he started to become more mentorable after this experience. Remember, he was very, very new and this was one of his first tech companies he was covering.

We also note that his firm didn't lose much money and that the experience getting close to DEC helped unveil how quickly one of the most comprehensive, lucrative, soup to nuts technology shifts was happening: the shift to networking. So, in my mind, this is a stock disaster with a number of silver linings, including that Pip wouldn't have been as convicted about the shift in networking without this experience.

With that, I give you our silver lining stock disaster, and hope that in this sixth in this series, you see why we think they're so valuable for our learning. Let's jump in.