On: The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now

[TylerE]

Sort of?

I mean unlike 99.9% of the first wave of DotCom startups they managed to avoid actually going bankrupt.

[scarface74 → TylerE]

They got lucky and secured a line of credit right before the bust.

[johnvanommen → scarface74]

That was a dark time. I was living and working near Seattle, and there were basically seven big employers for techies:

* Microsoft * Boeing * T-Mobile * WaMu * Amazon * Concur * Real Networks

And three of the seven were in severe financial distress. It was like, "hmmm is it time to leave Seattle?"

[voxadam → johnvanommen]

"Will the last person leaving Seattle - Turn out the lights"

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