The Yahoo founders left with never-fly-commercial money before re-joining the billionaire club by investing the money they had. Others that survived post-IPO include eBay and Dell.

There were high profile failures but we have had those recently too eg. pet.com (dot com) and color.com (post-dot com, domain has since been repurposed)

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locknitpicker 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> The Yahoo founders left with never-fly-commercial money before re-joining the billionaire club by investing the money they had.

I think you're confusing people cashing out with actually creating a successful company. Yahoo is not what people would describe as flagship company, or pets.com or Ask Jeeves or myspace or Voat or whatever. The dotcom bubble made a lot of people rich, but most examples were at expense of bag holders.

	▲	nickpp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No successful company is on top forever. Just take a look at the top companies 20 or 30 years ago: where are they now? Nowhere near the top.