Deja vu all over again: Allbirds vs. Zapata’s 1998 “fish oil to Dot.com” Pivot (opens in new tab)

For the older investors among my readers, the name Zapata maybe rings a bell. In 1998, US fish oil producer Zapata announced that they had enough of fish oil and planned to go big time into the “Internet business”. The history of Zapata itself reads like a novel, among other it was owned in its various incarnations (Real oil company,