◉Tech Investing RadarBY MARC WINN
← Historical patterns

SIMILAR CONDITIONS. DIFFERENT OUTCOMES.

Compare the pattern.
Keep the differences.

Find the shared questions across two episodes, then inspect the evidence that makes each one different.

SHARED RESEARCH HYPOTHESES

1 shared pattern feature

An external event changes demand

These labels describe retrospective research hypotheses. They are not a similarity probability, forecast or evidence that either case predicts the other.

Important differences

  • The documented business outcomes differ; business progress must be assessed separately from shareholder return.
  • The episodes occurred in different calendar periods; market conditions are not controlled for.

Missing evidence

  • Zoom: no verified price series for this episode.
  • Zoom: no comparable measured historical sentiment series.
  • Cisco: annual endpoints do not resolve a two-to-eight-week investment window.
  • Cisco: no comparable measured historical sentiment series.

ZM · 2020–2020

Zoom: an external shock transforms the demand outlook

Documentary candidate
Price window not yet verifiedDated business evidence is available below.

Prior belief

Hypothesis: a fast-growing enterprise-video service.

New possibility

Hypothesis: essential infrastructure for working and learning remotely.

Alternative explanations

  • Emergency demand pulled forward from later years
  • Free usage versus paid customer economics

Evidence gaps

  • Selected retrospectively, rather than discovered by a predeclared stock-universe screen.
  • Belief labels are interpretations, not a measured sentiment series or evidence of market consensus.
  • Daily adjusted prices, liquidity, transaction costs and exact entry or exit boundaries are not verified.
  • Related episodes can overlap and are not independent statistical observations.
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CSCO · 2000–2001

Cisco: enduring technology meets a customer-capex reversal

Documentary candidate
Annual context 2000–2005Episode 2000–2001 shaded

Prior belief

Hypothesis: internet demand could support prolonged exceptional equipment growth.

New possibility

Hypothesis: customers could sharply reduce spending despite the internet continuing to expand.

Alternative explanations

  • Telecom financing and macro conditions
  • Inventory planning errors

Evidence gaps

  • Selected retrospectively, rather than discovered by a predeclared stock-universe screen.
  • Belief labels are interpretations, not a measured sentiment series or evidence of market consensus.
  • Daily adjusted prices, liquidity, transaction costs and exact entry or exit boundaries are not verified.
  • Related episodes can overlap and are not independent statistical observations.
  • This is a documented business reset, not a statistically matched control or a verified price-window label.
Inspect the full dated evidence →

Belief descriptions are reconstructed unless the case explicitly identifies contemporary sentiment evidence. Annual charts may cover different dates and use different benchmarks. They must not be read as matched trade results.