Published, by Tim Shore

San Francisco and the Lure of the Dot-Com Boom

Feb 11, 2026
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After nearly two years at an SAP consulting firm in Toronto, I was getting anxious. The dot-com boom was happening all around me, and I was missing it. I was day trading internet stocks and reading everything I could about this changing world, but my actual job barely reflected that I was living through a unique moment in time. Opportunities seemed to be everywhere except where I was.

I needed to get to San Francisco, the epicentre of the dot-com boom. But how?

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