On the other hand, getting axed by a company that's headed for bankruptcy is, at the very least, galvanizing. Comeback corps shakes off the tech ashes Our vocabulary is richer in words to describe failure than success. Not just overnight millionaires who took their dot-com money and ran, though there were plenty of those. The new decade is already littered with financial disasters. Hundreds of billions of dollars have disappeared as the tech world imploded.
Some people have a knack for timing.
They land in the sweetest spots at the best possible moments.