Prologue: Summer 1998, New York The air in Manhattan that August was thick and wet, the kind of heat that makes the city’s concrete seem to sweat. In the quiet, carpeted conference rooms of Wall Street’s most powerful banks, phones were ringing with a peculiar urgency. Not about the next IPO, not about a sudden […]
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It was a crisp Monday morning in New York — October 19, 1987. Coffee carts clattered along Broad Street, steam curling into the cool autumn air. Traders in tailored suits hurried past, briefcases in hand, swapping weekend stories and grumbling about the Yankees. Everything felt ordinary — another day of deals, trades, and ringing phones.
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🌅 The Beginning: A New World Was Opening The late 1990s were electric. For the first time, people were talking about things like “going online,” “email,” and “search engines.” You could order a book from a website instead of going to a store. Type a few words, and you’d get instant answers. Chat with someone
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September 15, 2008. New York. Early morning. Office workers in crisp suits stepped out of the Lehman Brothers building, their arms wrapped around cardboard boxes—family photos, desk plants, notebooks—everything they’d built over years, now carried out in silence. They weren’t just leaving jobs.They were walking straight into a storm that would shake the global economy
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🦸♂️ 1. Introduction: The Unsung Heroes of the Startup World Each unicorn company you are envious of today—Zomato, Ola, Airbnb, and WhatsApp—took its origin much earlier than fame, funding rounds, and media reports.At that time, when the founders were presenting ideas from coffee shop stalls or garage workspaces, when the product was just a prototype—or
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Let me tell you something – five years ago, I thought mutual funds were just fancy bank accounts with better interest rates. Boy, was I wrong. After making some embarrassing mistakes, celebrating a few wins, and learning from friends who knew way more than me, I’ve figured out that mutual funds are like different tools
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Modern media treats venture capital as a fountain of instant riches and innovation-on-demand. Scratch the surface, though, and you’ll find a high-stakes, low-odds game whose glitzy wins hide a mountain of silent failures. This deep-dive explains how VC money really moves, who benefits, and why founders might be better off taking a different road. The
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What is Cryptocurrency? Let’s Keep It Simple 👶 Consider having money that exists only on the internet and computers – that is cryptocurrency! You can imagine it like the money you hold in your online bank account, only much more powerful. Cryptocurrency is money that: The word cryptocurrency comes from “cryptography,” a way of encoding information to
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Why You Should Consider Index Funds for Long-Term Wealth. Imagine a low-cost investment strategy that outperforms 80% of professional investment managers time and time again — and costs less than a cup of coffee per month. Sounds too good to be true? Welcome to the world of index fund investing — a groundbreaking strategy that
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Introduction “You’ve probably heard of hedge funds in movies like The Big Short, but what are they really?” Imagine this: You’re scrolling through your news feed and you read a headline that reads, “Hedge Fund Makes $3 Billion on Tech Bet.” You pause, read it again, and wonder—what is even a hedge fund? Some mystical
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