Pets.com
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Sep 14, 2026
Adir ShiffmanHOST
And, and, um, we hear a lot of people compare, say, AI and the boom in AI compare to the dot-com boom and the run-up in the dot-com boom.
Adir ShiffmanHOST
And when I think of the stocks that were doing well in the lead up to the dot-com boom, you know, pets.com is one that springs to mind that 100x'd or whatever, probably 1000x, whatever it was.
Adir ShiffmanHOST
Uh, now when I look at pets.com, I don't think for a second that the US administration thought, "If we don't win the online pet retailing war with the rest of the world and with China in particular, that's gonna be an ex- existential risk to the US going forward." I do think they think that about AI, and I think that's a rational thought.
Adir ShiffmanHOST
Uh, hence when liquidity got pulled away post the dot-com boom crashing that market, uh, I think the likelihood of that happening with the AI race is less likely.
Adir ShiffmanHOST
Still possible, but less likely.
Richy GlassbergGUEST
You can look at my S1.
Richy GlassbergGUEST
February 18th of 2000 and March 14th is when Pets.com went up and the internet bubble happened.
Richy GlassbergGUEST
So, you know, both...
Richy GlassbergGUEST
But my experience, look, I was a kid at CNN, you know, part of a team.
John HolcombHOST
Yeah.
Matt ToussaintGUEST
And in that specific case, Pets.com, hey-
John HolcombHOST
[laughs]
Matt ToussaintGUEST
...
Erica Cruz GuevaraHOST
Heather Knight is the San Francisco Bureau Chief for The New York Times.
Heather KnightGUEST
It's just more money, more wealth, a lot more than, you know, the days of Webvan and Pets.com.
Erica Cruz GuevaraHOST
So Mayor Daniel Lurie made this announcement on Thursday declaring a rent emergency in San Francisco.
Erica Cruz GuevaraHOST
What does that mean exactly? And is that just like a formality or does it actually trigger some set of actual policy changes?
Owen RaskHOST
Amazon was launching.
Owen RaskHOST
Pets.com was a thing.
Owen RaskHOST
IBM, who's just come off the mainframe and had been working on desktop computing, was now one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Owen RaskHOST
Cisco was a thing.
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Owen RaskHOST
They play with Charlie, my son.
Owen RaskHOST
But they don't actually do anything.
Owen RaskHOST
They don't have any profits, right? So then the question becomes, are these companies creating something that is kind of, um, uh, valuable to society? And I, I don't know about you, Gem, but, um, I would say that the AI companies are creating more value for businesses, for society, than, say, Pets.com did in the early 2000s.
Owen RaskHOST
I don't, never went to that website in the early 2000s, but what do you think? I, I feel like they create more value for society.
Taylor LorenzHOST
No, this is not an original.
Taylor LorenzHOST
And you know what's so funny? This t-shirt is a reference to the really famous Pets.com ad that everyone knew, but that was actually only a TV ad of that little pet guy.
Lawrence SchlossmanGUEST
So somebody made this art or used AI to make this art?
Taylor LorenzHOST
I know.
Aaron GoldmanHOST
We've got old relics from back in the early days.
Aaron GoldmanHOST
I think the Pets.com sock puppets over there.
Aaron GoldmanHOST
I got a bunch of fidgets that kind of keep me occupied on my Zoom calls.
Aaron GoldmanHOST
So why don't you just grab a few things, and we'll work them into the wrap.
Matt KleinGUEST
You know, I think it's very easy to say it was a dot-com phenomenon.
Matt KleinGUEST
It mostly showed up in, like, the valuation of stocks like Pets.com or what have you.
Matt KleinGUEST
But you can strip that back.
Matt KleinGUEST
And there was, if you look at, so... things like investment net of depreciation and inflation.
Jason HartmanHOST
I remember being caught up in that whole thing.
Jason HartmanHOST
Remember Webvan? Remember the sock puppet from, I don't know, Pets.com, I think it was? I mean, these businesses weren't even like real businesses.
Jason HartmanHOST
They weren't sensible businesses.
Jason HartmanHOST
Real businesses actually make profits, right? You know, it's so funny because years ago, probably circa 2018, I was thinking of I should take on some investors in my company and expand and grow and do the big thing.
NateHOST
There was Triumph.
NateHOST
There was the Pets.com puppet.
NateHOST
There was Wishbone.
NateHOST
Wishbone?
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