The San Jose Mercury News finally recognizes that many dot-boom Silicon Valley companies were nothing more than Ponzi schemes for company bigwigs. As 40 public Internet companies lost 99.8 percent of their value during the dot-com bust, executives, board members, and venture capitalists at those companies earned $3.41 billion by dumping their own shares.

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