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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by SJC_Hacker on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @12:11PM (#44572666)
> It also brought you Pets.com, Webvan, and the bajillion other companies chronicled in "Fucked Company".

The irony with Webvan, they had the right idea about 15 years too early. Now we have InstaCart, DoorDash, etc. You really needed the mobile revolution circa 2010 for it to work.

Pets.com is essentially Chewy (successful pet focused online retailer)

So, neither of those ideas were really terrible in the same vain as say Juicera, or outright frauds like Theranos. Overvalued and ill-timed, sure

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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by fuzzieozzie on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:49PM (#44575118)
Don't forget that Amazon's market cap was higher in 1999 than 2009!
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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by AceJohnny2 on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:01PM (#44584507)
What

March 1999: ~$27.7B

Jan 2009: ~$25B (back to $27.7B & rising by Feb)

Huh.

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