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MARCH 2, 2024

A $50,000 investment, made in 2007 -- the same year the iPhone debuted -- would have grown to a cool $3.5 Let's face it: No company or stock has ridden the AI wave better or to greater heights than Nvidia. ." -- Warren Buffett, from the 2022 Berkshire Hathaway letter to shareholders One big winner can make a fortune.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

MercadoLibre has been a public company since 2007, and if you had invested $1,000 at its IPO, you'd have $62,000 today. A few rare stocks have been able to turn $1,000 into $1 million over several decades. Most of the time, it's a diversified portfolio of great stocks that work together to create a millionaire-maker portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 27, 2024

Coupang has only been a public company for approximately two years, but the results over that time have been impressive. Unlike Coupang, MercadoLibre has been on the public market since 2007. While its main business is an e-commerce marketplace, it also has food delivery, streaming content , and a fintech business.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2024

11, 2007 : 3-for-2 stock split (996 shares) July 20, 2021 : 4-for-1 stock split (3,984 shares) IPO-day investors have seen their share count in Nvidia grow by a factor of 48. Here's what's made Nvidia the stock of the century (thus far) Throughout its 25 years as a public company, Nvidia has had moments where it's thrived.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

From reflections on the volatility of 2007-08, to introducing new terms like "Big Dumb Money," and thoughts on building mental frameworks for investing, David reacts to his past essays with fresh insights for today's markets. I know 2007 wasn't great for investors. The first is, I didn't even remember 2007 almost zeroed out.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Apple Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the world's largest public company with a valuation of $2.8 The firm opened its position in the bank in 2007, and it has continued to buy more shares, even as recently as this year. Therefore, they have begun using AI in a variety of ways -- and some of them might surprise you. of its portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

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. That was the year Twitter took off.

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Blackstone

MARCH 21, 2023

It’s the “buy it, fix it” model—private market investors with operational expertise can intervene to change the course of their investment in a way that minority investors in a public company simply cannot. Annualized total return is calculated over the period 1/1/2007 to 9/30/2022.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

George Arison: I'm a company builder. I built three companies from scratch. I built my first company, starting in 2007 when the idea of building a mobile app was completely foreign people, we put apps on BlackBerrys. But so much opportunity almost like a series B company from product development point of view.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Mary Long: When you started Sweetgreen in 2007, originally, the menu looked a little different. It's been really exciting about being a public company is we've been able to really balance that thinking differently and not so traditional method of whether it's around product development or talking about our customers.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

You're seeing actually net consumption of nicotine remain flat to where we were in 2007 level. Swedish Match was the parent company of ZYN in the past year or so that company has dominant market share in nicotine pouches in the US. Do you have rights to it?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

David Gardner: You were public? We're public company. We found another company that we thought was a great fit, was able to close that transaction. Can you remind me, you were a very young public company CEO. Thinking again, here of many of my listeners who are investors in public companies only.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. Explain Matt Levine : 00:14:13 If a bad thing happens at a public company, public company does a bad thing. And I love that. I thought that was really fun.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

MercadoLibre has been a public company since 2007, and it has never split its stock. Net income was negatively impacted by a tax liability in the fourth quarter, but MercadoLibre remains reliably profitable, with $165 million in the fourth quarter.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This book originally came out, I believe, in 2007. We only got to enjoy Pixar as its own public company for several years with Steve Jobs, by the way, as CEO before it got eaten up by Disney. One of the books he has had on his shelf was, Thanks, How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier. It's by Robert Emmons.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I think it’s kind of systemic at this point where you have companies reporting earnings on a quarterly basis. So many public companies expected to issue guidance and then meet that guidance or else, you know, essentially. What’s it like running a public company? You are a public company.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. They’ve been around literally nearly a century.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: By 2019, it was, I think, nine to 10 years, and by 2022, it was 14 to 15 years before they were going public, right? You have half the number of public companies that you had in 2000. And so you look at, well, why go public, right? A public company has quarterly earnings pressure. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Stock Number 2 is a public company today whose CEO was in the one year between us in elementary school. Speaking of dividends, this company also pays a dividend 2.9% Willy Walker in 2007, became Chairman and CEO of this Bethesda, Maryland company that his grandfather founded. as the yield.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

If we pivot for a second to their consumer health unit, which recently went public, Kenvue, that also reported and beat analyst estimates for their first quarterly reports since being a public company. I've been on the HubSpot Board of Advisors since 2007. David Scott: Lots of them, yes. Super great.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

It was our quarterly game show for the 24th consecutive quarter six years of you playing along against my talented guests stars as we all think smarter about the values of public companies that was The Market Cap Game Show and the week before. Just to review, this was again in September 2007.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

RITHOLTZ: I wonder, do fundamentals matter more, or is it really just a question of how far away from fundamentals can public equities get, either to the upside or the downside where it creates some form of opportunity, which kind of raises the question, how closely do private market fundamentals track what’s going on in the public markets?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I'm looking at public companies that have broken the rules, subverting our expectations of what would come to be norms and creating huge value as a consequence of contravening our expectations. I mentioned that earlier as well, but Apple with its iPhone 2007 launch so subverted our expectations of what a smartphone would be.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

public company by market cap, exceeding the market value of all other asset managers. It's possible you could do larger transactions with some public companies to get things done. We were also the first in our sector to be added to the S&P 500 Index, positioning our stock to be even more widely owned.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They invest primarily in private and public companies. So I had started a third company called Room 77 that we had end up selling to Google. I had just gotten married in the fall of 2007. You invest in startups, you invest in public companies, you invest in privates. I had my first child in June of 2008.

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