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What Comparisons To The Tech Bubble Get Wrong

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It's been a rocky time for high profile tech startups — like WeWork and Peleton — to go public, with many seeing their initial valuations drop. That has lead to comparisons to the tech bubble burst of 2000.

But Derek Thompson (@DKThomp), senior editor at The Atlantic, says what's happening now is actually the opposite of what happened then.

This segment aired on October 21, 2019.

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