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Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank, and Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Are Betting Big on This AI Startup

The Motley Fool

OpenAI was founded in 2015 by a team of researchers and entrepreneurs which included Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Tesla Chief Executive Offficer Elon Musk. OpenAI is a private company, so it can choose which investors it wants to work with. Can regular investors buy shares in OpenAI?

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1 Stock-Split Stock That Created Many Millionaires, and Will Continue to Make More

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Investors who bought Netflix stock at its initial public offering (IPO) and held until now would be sitting on a gain of 45,332%. In fact, Netflix has created so much value that management has opted for two stock splits -- one in 2004, and another in 2015 -- to ensure the stock remained accessible to smaller investors.

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Blackstone and CPP Investments Acquire AirTrunk From Macquarie and PSP Investments

Pension Pulse

Khuda, who established AirTrunk in 2015, will remain with the company as the CEO. Since then, the company has expanded from five data centres in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, to become a leading hyperscale data centre specialist across 11 sites, including Japan and Malaysia. "CPP This is a huge deal.

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Want to Beat the Average Stock Market Return? Here Are 10 Stocks to Help

The Motley Fool

I'm going to share 10 stocks that have crushed the index since their initial public offering ( IPO ), and they have the potential to help you beat the market going forward, too. Meta Platforms: 826% return since IPO Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) is the parent company of popular social networks Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

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A SPARC Is Still a SPAC

The Motley Fool

If you look at a SPAC versus a SPARC, SPACs, special purpose acquisition company, ultimately, they gather this money through an initial public offering of a shell company with the promise ultimately to acquire a successful public or private company, I'm sorry.