The Dot-com Optimists Got a Lot Right
An analysis of Mary Meeker’s late-90s internet reports suggests she was often accurate, or even too conservative.
A man who has money in Nasdaq stocks, peers through a window at the Nasdaq board in Times Square in New York City, N.Y., April 4, 2000.
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Welcome back to The Forecast from Bloomberg Weekend, where we help you think about the future — from next week to next decade.
This weekend, two friends of the Forecast look at how even the dot-com era’s internet optimists were too conservative in their projections — and what that means for AI. Plus, the US may shrink this year, prediction markets think there’s a better-than-even chance of more US strikes on Iran, and new male birth control options may be coming soon.