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"Rule Breaker Investing" Gotta Know The Lingo, Vol. 6

The Motley Fool

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $21,121 !* Paul Graham from Y Combinator wrote in a blog, reflecting on what Brian had been talking about about how when companies grow, consultants and board members start to advise these founders that they need to delegate.

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James Surowiecki Joins Us to Talk About Crypto, Meme Stocks, and Movies

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Michael Saylor, the CEO of the company, who decided to take his mobile software consulting company in an unusual direction when he began converting the company's assets from cash into Bitcoin, and then even went so far as to start raising money on the public markets simply to buy more Bitcoin. billion of Bitcoin.

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Best Caisse Scenario?

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the tight-knit firmament of private and public companies that drive the province’s economy. It has significant stakes in most of Quebec’s flagship companies, many of which leaned heavily on the Caisse as they grew into industry champions, including Alimentation Couche-Tard, CGI, Intact Financial and WSP Global.

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Cloudflare (NET) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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The first seven years, 2010 to through 2017 were all about engineering and little else, figuring out if it was even possible to build the revolutionary network we have today. There's a public company in the financial services space that's doing real-time fraud detection.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

And basically, all they do is looking at these trends, talking to industry consultants, industry participants and CEOs to really try to get a sense of where, like, the most relevant emerging trends are. RITHOLTZ: And how about Wind Energy or WNDY, W-N-D-Y, what sort of companies do you hold in that sort of EFT?

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Authors in August: David Eagleman's "Sum"

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And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $19,498 !* I mentioned the top Neosensory, brain check, you've consulted on others. It's not a public company, so I don't spend as much time with it. David Gardner: David, you've founded a number of businesses.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

BARATTA: Wind, solar, electrifying the economy, getting off of oil and gas, and it’s all kinds of companies engaged. And so, in terms of where our teams are spending time, it’s in and around sort of public markets. BARATTA: Yeah. In terms of sectors, the real value dislocations have happened in the technology industry.