RE:RE:RE:RE:Guys take is easy on TamyNortel between 1996 and Jan 2000 went up from $$'s to $100 if i remember correctly and split 3 for 1 went back up to $100 and split 2 for 1 or something like that and thats why it became 40 % of tte index , so did JDS Uniphase which also was a major factor hhere in Cda. in the Dot com bubble.
Roth cashed out $150M in options in Jan 2000, he saw the writing on he wall some people who had shares for yrs before the crash of March 2000 also did others hung on thinking the bubble would never end and got greedy sitting on huge paper gains
There were a lot of co's who went public back then that were nothing but paper co's, todays are viable profitable co''s , , its a different story now.