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He began spending some of his SoftBank spoils to build a miniature Vision Fund to match his own interests, investing in a biotech firm dedicated to increasing human longevity;
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
firm invests in 10 companies with the potential to become monopolies—already
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Cameron Winklevoss, • CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money
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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
“I realized I might not be spectacular or the best, but I could do something good. I just had that confidence,” he says.
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
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Michael Lewis • Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Once again, placing bets of significant size depends on appropriately skewed probabilities, and these types of probabilities are uncommon, but both the mathematics and the investors argue for large bets when situations with unusual risk/return arise. It is important to note that the risk referred to here is the risk of permanent loss of capital and
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