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What happened to investors who bought Amazon shares at the height of the dot-com bubble?
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A - They lost everything
97 votes (25.1%)
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B - They waited years to recover
131 votes (33.9%)
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C - They doubled their money within a year
100 votes (25.9%)
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D - Amazon bought back their shares
58 votes (15.0%)
Total votes: 386
Correct answer: B – They waited years to recover.
Explanation: Amazon survived the dot-com crash. But its shares lost more than 90% of their value from their 1999 peak to their 2001 low.
Investors who bought near the top had to wait roughly a decade to see the shares return to those levels.
And yet Amazon eventually became one of the greatest investments in stock market history.