Crisis to study

Insight

• Until the brain of man evolves to something else, it will continuously oscillate between adrenaline and dopamine. History inevitably repeats itself.
• More can be learned about survival from failure than success
• Since 1970s, crashes have occurred with more frequency

Major events

• 1997 financial crisis
• 2000 dot com bust
• 2003 9/11 incident
• 2004/5 SARs
• 2008 Subprime bust
• 2015 Saudi Arabia oil dump

Company specific

• 1998 Microsoft Anti-Trust
• 2014 Alibaba
• 2015 LinkedIn
• 2016 Apple terrorist scare
• 2017 Equifax data breach
• 2018 Tesla self driving car crash
• 2018 Facebook data scandal

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