Perfect timing

December 9, 2008

The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies…when Microsoft and Apple were founded.

— Paul Graham

We haven’t got much money, so we have to think"

— Ernest Rutherford

Trade Me was launched in 1999, just as the first tech bubble burst spectacularly.

I wonder which companies will look back on the current financial crisis and think that it was possibly the perfect time to launch?

Feel free to nominate some possible candidates:

UPDATE: I didn’t realise when I posted these quotes this morning, but today is actually the 100th anniversary of Ernest Rutherford’s award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. 🙂


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