Stanley Druckenmiller
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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Leading “solo capitalists” manage more money than many funds. Oren Zeev manages more than $1 billion without additional investment support. Elad Gil, Josh Buckley, Harry Stebbings and Lachy Groom manage funds in the hundreds of millions with similarly lean structures.
Mario Gabriele • The Future of Solo Capitalists | The Generalist
In 2014, Forbes ranked him as the 134th richest American, at $3.8 billion. One of his hires was Jeff Bezos, who, while researching business opportunities in 1994 for Shaw, got the idea for an online bookstore and left to start a company called Amazon.com. At $30 billion in 2014, Bezos was the fifteenth richest American.
Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
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