A couple of others I can think of:

  • Crypto-boom of 2016ish: GPUs/mining rigs
  • LLM/AI hype nowish: User generated data
  • 90’s dotcom bubble: Server space
  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    During a pandemic, sell sanitizer and toilet paper?

    But most those guys were pretty much seen as assholes, so I don’t know if this good advice or not.

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      The toilet paper thing was mostly a result of mass hysteria, not an actual issue of supply and demand. There were some supply issues in Australia IIRC, but most countries would absolutely not have had any toilet paper shortages if people hadn’t all panic-bought far more than they needed