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This Investor Bet On Robinhood With The First Check

From Forbes: Only a handful of early stage investors have the distinction of writing seed checks to Unicorns. When such investors do this repeatedly, we are intrigued about their investment process. It’s even more intriguing if the investor is an emerging manager and virtually unknown. Robinhood has recently made big headlines by reaching a $5.6B valuation in[…]

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Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994. Their returns? Mind-boggling

From South China Morning Post December 2018: A group including family and friends each got 1 per cent of Bezos’ firm in return for US$50,000 – and an astonishing 14 million per cent return now makes each of those original shares worth US$7bn. He failed to convince 38 of them, and 24 years later some[…]

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Bono’s group has made more money from Facebook investment than from all his music

Bono has written dozens songs during his long and enduring career. But a group he set up several years ago has made more money from an investment in Facebook in 2009, than from all of the music he has written and recorded over the years. Reports said the 55-year-old rock frontman bought a 2.3 per[…]