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This post is part of a series on some of the most memorable companies that have disappeared.
What goes up, must come down. It was a cute ad. Who knew it would turn out to be so prophetic?
Pets.com will go down in history as a textbook example of dot-com flame-out, going from IPO to liquidation in nine short months.
Founded in 1998, the company, which had the bright idea of selling pet food and supplies to the public via the internet, went public in February 2000 and raised $82.5 million.
Continue reading Companies that vanished: Pets.com -- the sock puppet dies
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