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Inktomi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi

Was valued at 25B in 2000, ended up getting acquired by Yahoo for 235M. In terms of stocks - from $241 down to $1.63

That easy replication of the product is exactly what I'm talking about. Search engine is actually a much more sophisticated setup and even in that space multiple companies went belly up.




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