For the past 15 years or so, ever since the tech industry began its recovery from the dot-com bust, observers have rushed to declare a new "bubble."
With each successive increase in the valuations of companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Pinterest, Snapchat, skeptics have dismissed the growth as a "fad" and the extraordinary and real value created as a delusion.
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