The Peel(@ThePeelPod):I asked 18x Midas Lister Navin Chaddha what it was like IPOing the last company before the Dot Com Bubble popped: "My second company, iBeam, went public in May 2000, the last IPO before the dot-com crash. We built a distributed internet for video, pushing content through satellite to the edge so it was served close to the user. We grew from zero to $100 million in revenue and went public nine months from launch. Then we went from blitzscaling to blitz-failing. Our customers were dot-coms. They all disappeared. In six months we went from $100 million in revenue to $20 or $30 million, and from a $3 billion market cap to $300 million. We ended up getting acquired. It was a two-year journey. That's where I learned company building is a marathon, not a sprint. If it takes nine months or five years, just be patient." Full conversation:

2026.09.27 20:48

I asked 18x Midas Lister Navin Chaddha what it was like IPOing the last company before the Dot Com Bubble popped: "My second company, iBeam, went public in May 2000, the last IPO before the dot-com crash. We built a distributed internet for video, pushing content through satellite to the edge so it was served close to the user. We grew from zero to $100 million in revenue and went public nine months from launch. Then we went from blitzscaling to blitz-failing. Our customers were dot-coms. They all disappeared. In six months we went from $100 million in revenue to $20 or $30 million, and from a $3 billion market cap to $300 million. We ended up getting acquired. It was a two-year journey. That's where I learned company building is a marathon, not a sprint. If it takes nine months or five years, just be patient." Full conversation: