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The Black Internet Gold Rush That Wiped Away $75 Million in 18 Months

It wasn’t just Pets.com and eToys — 20 years ago, a slew of hip-hop and ‘urban’ sites became early casualties of the first dot-com bubble

Aliya S. King
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25 min readAug 13, 2020

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At the very end, Adam Kidron needed a multimillion-dollar loan just to pay severance to the people he was laying off…

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Aliya S. King
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Aliya S. King is an author, freelance writer and editor.