The millennium had barely dawned in Silicon Valley, and everything seemed possible, not least for employees with stock options. For Agilent Technologies, everything and more could be seen in its stock price, 162 at one wacky moment early in 2000. A Hewlett-Packard spin-off, Agilent was all set to carry on HP's tradition as maker of the sharpest tools for the world's smartest scientists and engineers.
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