Is Firmus the top?

Friday 9 October 2026

For those who have lived through these tech bubbles before, the Firmus saga recalls the story of Chris “Two Bags” Tyler.

A high-flying American entrepreneur, Tyler pioneered Solution 6, a tech darling of the 2000 bubble.

Through the late 1990s, the swashbuckling Texan made a series of acquisitions to build Solution 6 into a $bn revenue firm.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.