[El Cid]

HP wasn't an internet stock. The tech crash was about internet stocks with high share prices and no earnings. That most certainly wasn't HP.

Like most stock crashes -- almost every stock crashed when the dot com bubble (propped up by smoke and mirrors during the Clinton sham economy) popped.
I'm not saying Carly was a good, or bad, CEO - I don't know. I didn't work at HP, nor followed them all that closely. She made a risky maneuver in merging with Compaq, and trying to reinvent HP - and it failed. I don't know if worse failure would have occurred if she had not tried the reinvention. My comments just have to do with the stock crash -- the dot com bubble struck most companies - particularly any company considered to be 'High Tech'.

[RoosterRedux]

The Internet Bubble was not propped up by Clinton. It was behaving according to a new economic model.

Carly was apparently an awful CEO...completely unrelated to the tech bubble crash.

[RoosterRedux]

As an aside. I am a retired investment banker...and a pretty good investor.

I saw the internet bubble coming because valuations were not driven by earnings. I am still unsure about the metrics that drive Amazon (who has little earnings, but is consuming market share by the billions).

I no longer invest in companies. I invest in market sector ETF's (IBB and QQQ).

Don't take my word for it...do you own analysis.

I am getting about 30% growth a year in my tiny portfolio.

It won't be tiny for long.