Bill Martin @ RagingBull.com: The Teenager Who Fueled the Dot-Com Bubble

<p>If you experienced the “Dot-Com Bubble” you surely remember all the hype and excitement surrounding the Web as well as all the money that flowed into tech startups in the late 90s. You also remember when things came tumbling down in May and April of 2000, wiping out countless companies and turning Silicon Valley into a corporate wasteland.</p><p>While plenty of factors contributed to the Dot-Com boom, one of the biggest contributors was investor hype. And, interestingly, the places where lots of that investor hype happened was on the Internet itself. In particular, community websites like RagingBull.com played a huge part in allowing retail investors to continuously promote the wild market.</p><p>But RagingBull wasn't some corporate tool built in the heart of Wall Street. Instead, it was launched by a college kid named Bill Martin who was simply interested in talking with other people online about stocks.</p><p>For a complete transcript of the episode, <a href="https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-17-bill-martin/">click here</a>.</p><p><br></p>