Euphoria had gripped the business world in the late 1990s, it was a time when the rules of economics were being rewritten and billionaires were being made seemingly overnight because of this new thing called “the Internet.” It was a new frontier of capitalism, and as meteoric as it was, it soon had a spectacular crash, known as the “dot-com bubble,” which took many careers and companies as its victims, including the startup I worked for. I found myself jobless – just one among countless casualties in an industry-wide implosion that would reshape the tech landscape for years to come. But this event is what catalyzed my career path in innovation.