highwayperson

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Earlier in 2015, assets of two onetime highflyers, social network Path and online retailer Fab, sold for a fraction of the money invested in them.

From Reuters • Sep. 11, 2015

Ironically, Julian Robertson shuttered his Tiger Management funds in March 2000, partly because they were underperforming after investing in "old-economy" stocks rather than Internet highflyers.

From Reuters • Mar. 27, 2014

Even the loftiest highflyers have been losing altitude fast.

From Time Magazine Archive

And let's not forget that the former highflyers were initially priced well below the nosebleed levels that rabid investors sent them to.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Would she camp down in Oklahomaw,” they says, “and cook three meals a day, 160 and wash out blue shirts, when she’s set on gittin’ up afore a passel of highflyers and yelpin’ ‘Marguerite’?

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor