Edited sentence: A number of employees of Lastminute.Most of those who lost money in the share saga were in their early/mid twenties who were caught up in the dot com hype of the company and thought it could be a quick way to pay back student loans etc.Share certificates were delayed in being sent out and by the time they arrived the share price had plummeted from the launch price,  the shares continued to collapse.So while Martha and Brent made their millions some of their young staff who had worked hard in the run up to the launch were left much worse off and some unable to pay back money they had borrowed to cover the share purchase.com lost thousands of pounds after buying up to £5,000 worth of shares