My favorite term for this in general is "irrational exuberance". Plenty of it was seen during the most bubble-like days of the 1997-2000 dotcom boom. Anyone remember beenz and flooz?

I was at ground zero at Nortel during that time. Quite an interesting (depressing?) place to be at the very start of your career!

Anything you can share about this time?

It took a very unrealistic amount of time to realize that the IP theft, artificial blockers and corruption had started a lot earlier than presumed. The Nortel dismantling should be taught as an example of infoSec espionage on the levels of corporate terrorism.

Can you elaborate? I don't think this is a well known topic at all

I think they’re talking about how Huawei got their start

That’s a great book.