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The Company that Broke Canada

BobbyBroccoli · documentary · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

BobbyBroccoli documentary on the rise of Nortel Networks, once the dominant Canadian telecom giant, during the dot-com era. It is part one of a two-part story.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a well-made documentary explaining Nortel's rise and the index-fund and bubble dynamics around it.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2024, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “BobbyBroccoli on YouTube does an absolutely phenomenal job creating documentaries.”

    Phenomenal documentary on Nortel's dot-com era story

    orc00, 2025-03 · Strong recommendation · in “When the Dotcom Bubble Burst”

  2. “I found this to be a very entertaining retelling of events from Nortel's persepective”

    Entertaining retelling of events from Nortel's perspective

    month13, 2025-09 · Recommendation · in “Anthropic raises $13B Series F”

  3. “you can watch this Bobbybroccoli video that explains it very well”

    Explains how index funds inflated Nortel's rise

    kmeisthax, 2026-03 · Recommendation · in “Nasdaq's Shame”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: nortel, dot-com bubble, canada, telecom, corporate history

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