Edge Cases 98: When the Bubble Bursts

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the current tech bubble: is it one? Is it web or mobile, or both? Is it like the 90s dot-com bubble? Plus: the tech industry in San Francisco, and Andrew’s tips for surviving a bust.

Links:

• Dot-com bubble « Wikipedia
• Facebook’s $1 Billion Instagram Purchase: Was it Worth it? « TIME.com
• What’s Up With Facebook’s WhatsApp Deal? « InvestorPlace
• The Man Who Gave “Yo” $200,000 « Valleywag
• I Am Rich « Wikipedia
• Any Port in a Storm « [Time code];
• Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating The World « WSJ
• Wired Cover: The Long Boom
• Tulip mania « Wikipedia
• Rebecca Solnit · Diary: Google Invades « LRB 7 February 2013
• The Boom Interview: Rebecca Solnit « Boom: A Journal of California
• Quote Details: John Maynard Keynes: The market can stay… « The Quotations Page

Rejected Episode Titles:

• “Are You a Prepper?” “Like, Dr Prepper?”
• A Red Shed in Wisconsin
• I’m Going to Read from Wikipedia Again
• I Am Not An Economist
• I Looked at Their Little Graph
• All Feeding on the Trough of Dot-Com Companies
• The Next Facebook of Whatever
• When the Investors Say “Enough”
• Don’t Worry, I Have a Lot of Comments
• Be Conservative
• Not Fruit Roll-Ups, Just Roll-Ups
• Buy a Compound Bow and Learn to Enjoy the Taste of Venison
• You May Want a Plan B
• Do It Now, DO IT NOW
• The Biggest Initial Hurtle Is Mental
• While the Pond Got Smaller, a Lot of Fish Left
• My Phone Kept on Ringing
• Supplying Hardware for the War
• Doing the Matrix-Style Brain Upload
• Each Time, He’s Saying, Nah, Nah
• I’ll Wait for the Economy to Tank, and Then I’ll Be in Great Shape
• That’s Where the Money Is
• Right Now, We’re Sitting Pretty