After the tech bubble burst in 2000, the proverbial house cleaning of the speculative mess mercilessly swept aside the weak players, of which there were many. But as Nietzsche said, whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. True for one’s soul, true for companies. Indeed, the tech survivors are a stronger, and in many cases smarter lot. Business plans are something more than the back-of-the-envelope variety that was infamous in the late-1990s in the dot-com boom. Meanwhile, the large, established tech firms in many instances have learned how to play the game with a nimbler hand.