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Could This Bull-Market Buy Help You Become a Millionaire?

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MercadoLibre has been a public company since 2007, and if you had invested $1,000 at its IPO, you'd have $62,000 today. That's still far from $1 million, but as your capital continues to compound, it could be enough to become $1 million over decades of patient investing.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

It''s a solid exit to a company that has lots of revs, is growing, and together will form a very formidable player in the data backup space--one that can definitely be a public company in the next couple of years. I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Twitter Faces Threats From AI and Threads

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When you've got capital, when you've got a lot of Cloud access, when you've got teams of engineers, and you already have policies in place for content moderation is an important distinction here. You're seeing actually net consumption of nicotine remain flat to where we were in 2007 level. Do you have rights to it?

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Fundrise CEO Ben Miller Talks About the Fed, AI, and More

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Typically, and I go back to 2007 or 1999, I went back and pulled quotes from like before every recession and right before every recession, jobs, unemployment was super low. Unemployment in 2007 was historic lows. You get a lot more information from a private company when you're investing in them. People say, "Look at jobs."

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Gratitude: 2024

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Now, I want to note four times over the past 20 years, the company split its stock, two for one in 2006, three for two in 2007, four for one in 2021, and 10 for one in 2024. By October 2007, the stock was making me look good as it tipped the scales at 120. That savings we call capital. Let's go through the story then.

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A Motley Fool Co-Founder's Roller-Coaster Nvidia Story

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By October 2007, the stock was at $10 a share. I was pretty pleased in October 2007, but market historians will remember 2008 was a cruel year for investors and it was for Nvidia as well. In 2016, the stock crossed 10, where it had been at that early peak in October of 2007. standing, start April 2005. That's right. We're back.

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Talking With Authors: "Selling Without Selling Out" With Sunny Vanderbeck

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That's the book title of my guest this week for authors in August here to introduce you to my friend Sunny Vanderbeck and a wide-ranging conversation about business, about conscious capitalism, about mergers and acquisitions and bankers in deadlines and you and your family, your employees, all your stakeholders, selling without selling out.