Step one, diversify, step two, build your emergency fund, step three, sell your tech share awards

As the saying goes, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Getty

As the saying goes, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Getty

If you’re of a certain vintage, talk of an AI stock bubble may be giving you a whiff of deja vu back to the turn of the century.

There’ll be flashbacks to the hype of the late 1990s, when unprofitable start-ups riding on the coat-tails of growing adoption of the internet and new telecom infrastructure were floated on the stock market and soaring to heady heights.