The dot-com bubble of 2000 is hard for many grizzled investors to forget due to the sudden reversal of investor sentiment and painful losses as high-flying dot-com stocks lost value quickly. Looking ...

When Pets.com launched in early November 1998, the website had so much potential. Amazon was involved in the first round of venture funding and by 1999, the e-commerce giant had a 54 percent stake in ...

Pets.com’s sock puppet mascot appeared in a multimillion-dollar Super Bowl commercial.Screengrab via YouTube. If you type Pets.com into your browser today, you get ...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. How much was the Silicon Valley bubble responsible for the companies that ...

[Editor's note] Tuesday, we wrote about a startup called PetFlow and drew the obvious comparison between PetFlow and Pets.com. Former Pets.com CEO Julie Wainwright took exception to what we had to say ...

If you had to pick one really annoying sock puppet to represent the imploded excesses of the dot-com boom, it would be the microphone-wielding mascot of online pet food retailer Pets.com. For a few ...

Many lessons were learned during the original dot-com bubble. Business plans that were considered acceptable in the later 1990s and early 2000s would be treated as completely ludicrous by ...

In his most recent letter to investors, David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital wrote that today's market bears resemblance to the tech bubble of 2000. He then compared Chewy, the company I founded in ...

At the turn of the century, he was about as famous as a white ribbed sock could get. Playful, a bit naughty and ever so snarky, the mascot for the San Francisco-based company was voiced by comedian ...