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Steve Ballmer is worth $179B for screaming one word at a developer conference in 2000. The clip is 26 years old. A 44-year-old CEO sprints across a stage in Orlando, dress shirt already soaked through, and howls "developers" until his voice tears. The room laughs. The internet has been...

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racer9 天前

Ballmer’s greatest investment decision may have been simply refusing to sell Microsoft after leaving it.

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Charlie Avallone8 天前

He nearly destroyed them during his tenure as CEO.

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klaxxon8 天前

I think “nearly destroyed” is a bit too harsh. He made some big mistakes, but Microsoft was still growing and making huge profits under his leadership!

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Charlie Avallone8 天前

If you think he was a positive as CEO you don’t know business. It’s only after he was gone that the company took off again. The best thing he did for his net worth was to leave the company.

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klaxxon8 天前

Maybe he wasn’t the best CEO, but you can’t deny that Microsoft was making serious money while he was in charge His leadership had flaws, but saying he was simply bad for the company is an oversimplification.

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Charlie Avallone8 天前

An 8th grader could have served as CEO and made money. The question is did he advance the company. The answer is no. Microsoft would be the same Microsoft had he never existed. Gates and Allen were the innovators. He was just along for the ride.

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Michael Geri9 天前

Perspective: MSFT also increased revenue and profit 5x under his leadership. Stock multiple fell from 100x in 2000 to 10x. Also SPX was flat during that same 14 year period.

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Cad É 🇮🇪8 天前

He was actually right in the end !! The iPhone is nothing without the App Store … “Developers … developers … developers”

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Vane9 天前

He never sold a share, how many people could actually hold through that kind of run?

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notorious dumb genius/famous political champ🏆🇺🇸9 天前

I miss the late 90s so much you have no idea But if you know you know

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Justice Burbridge8 天前

The crazy part is that Ballmer didn’t need to be a great CEO forever, he just needed to keep owning the asset. 😂 Execution gets the headlines, but ownership and time do the compounding

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Slate Memo8 天前

Ballmer didn't actually never sell a share. he sold millions in 2003 and another 75 million in 2010 — and still left Microsoft owning about 4%

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P&O8 天前

Cant believe the fortune he made. It looks like a clown, there is nothing corporate about him. Then went to launch Windows Vista. Oh boy...

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Altzero8 天前

You'd think with the money he's on that he could afford a decent antiperspirant.

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dmsimon8 天前

Chris Farley vibes right here.

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C Schmitz8 天前

Look up his current annual dividends from Microsoft. Its really impressive.

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CStanOnX8 天前

Ballmer is a Baller.

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The AI Peoples Champ8 天前

He was also a founder so… he did a lot

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Devb 3328 天前

Holding was the real genius move.

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Machiavelli Hunter8 天前

Looks just like Bozo the Clown sans makeup and the goofy red nose!

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LuckyLuk8 天前

@grok how much cocaine was the dude on?

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BillHobson8 天前

He was fun to listen to. Much more motivational than Gates. That said, outside of his first couple years as CEO where he successfully piloted the company through the DOJ and dotcom fallout, his overall tenure as CEO was an epic failure.

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weibiotic9 天前

All that sweating and still talking!

𝚝𝚊𝚞𝚎𝚙𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚘𝚗𝟼𝟿 的头像
𝚝𝚊𝚞𝚎𝚙𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚘𝚗𝟼𝟿8 天前

I spoke to this guy at length at COMDEX, I believe '91 or something, Windows World, Chicago. We were one of the first 50 vendors to port software to the new Windows NT platform, at this point the developer edition, pre-beta. It was a great conversation about virtualization and we talked for it seemed probably and hour or 2.

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Jay Dangle8 天前

What's your point. He's a poor businessman, leader, and strategist but a smart investor? Congratulations for stating the obvious. Buffet and many others are just as good if not better, they, like Gates, didn't think keeping it all was the endgame. Screaming is inconsequential.

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Tigerflow

1,327,060 次观看 • 1 个月前

The best hire I ever made was a 12 year old kid from LA. His name is Eric Pham. He was making Fortnite montages in his bedroom. There was something special about him… the way he commanded the room and talked to a to camera was, different. He was funny. He was charismatic. He wasn't afraid to be himself. He just had “it”. Most people would've scrolled right past him. In 2019 I met Pham, quickly saw the potential he had and wanted to help. I then picked him up to my gaming startup Devour. A two years later he was at 100K subs. Now, he has hundreds of millions of views to his name. He's gone on to build massive channels outside of gaming, and is now the CMO of one of the fastest growing companies in creator tech (Viewmax with NotLuc). Everyone waits for the numbers to tell them someone's talented. By then it's too late. The best talent doesn't look like talent yet. It looks like a chubby kid in his bedroom with a ring light and 926 subscribers.
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The best hire I ever made was a 12 year old kid from LA. His name is Eric Pham. He was making Fortnite montages in his bedroom. There was something special about him… the way he commanded the room and talked to a to camera was, different. He was funny. He was charismatic. He wasn't afraid to be himself. He just had “it”. Most people would've scrolled right past him. In 2019 I met Pham, quickly saw the potential he had and wanted to help. I then picked him up to my gaming startup Devour. A two years later he was at 100K subs. Now, he has hundreds of millions of views to his name. He's gone on to build massive channels outside of gaming, and is now the CMO of one of the fastest growing companies in creator tech (Viewmax with NotLuc). Everyone waits for the numbers to tell them someone's talented. By then it's too late. The best talent doesn't look like talent yet. It looks like a chubby kid in his bedroom with a ring light and 926 subscribers.

Mitchell

24,264 次观看 • 4 个月前

A year ago, Pablo Torre 👀 broke the Clippers-Steve Ballmer scandal. At the time, everyone said he was crazy. It started with a tree-planting company that had hired numerous A-list stars — Robert Downey Jr., Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake, and others — to promote it. Later, the company fell apart and declared bankruptcy. The public documents it had to file as part of the bankruptcy process revealed that one of its big creditors was a company called KL2 Aspire LLC. This obscurely named company is what led to Pablo eventually uncovering what got former Microsoft CEO and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and his team one of the largest penalties levied against an NBA franchise in league history. Pablo breaks down how he uncovered the story:
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A year ago, Pablo Torre 👀 broke the Clippers-Steve Ballmer scandal. At the time, everyone said he was crazy. It started with a tree-planting company that had hired numerous A-list stars — Robert Downey Jr., Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake, and others — to promote it. Later, the company fell apart and declared bankruptcy. The public documents it had to file as part of the bankruptcy process revealed that one of its big creditors was a company called KL2 Aspire LLC. This obscurely named company is what led to Pablo eventually uncovering what got former Microsoft CEO and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and his team one of the largest penalties levied against an NBA franchise in league history. Pablo breaks down how he uncovered the story:

TBPN

44,663 次观看 • 15 天前

This man stole a country from his own father and spent the next 18 years buying the West with gas money. - He deposed his own dad in a palace coup and left him in exile for nearly a decade - He founded the news network that aired Osama bin Laden's tapes - He built America's largest military base in the Middle East and charges no rent for it - He bought Harrods, the Shard, Canary Wharf, Paris Saint-Germain and 17% of Volkswagen - He won the 2022 World Cup for a country with no football history Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died this morning at 74. Here's how bought the world: In June 1995, he waited for his father to leave the country, then took the throne. The coup was bloodless. His father spent nearly a decade in exile. Qatar is about one third the size of Belgium, and its population was barely two million, most of them foreign workers. But it was sitting on one of the LARGEST natural gas reserves on Earth. He bet everything on liquefied natural gas. Qatar became the world's biggest LNG exporter and one of the richest countries alive per person. Then he hit the problem every commodity business hits: Gas is gas, anyone with a tanker can sell it, and a tiny country with no army and that much money is a snack for its neighbours. So he bought two things nobody else in the Gulf thought to buy... The first was the world's attention. In 1996 he issued a decree and Al Jazeera was born. Within a few years it was the most influential news network in the Arab world. He owned the loudest microphone in the region and never had to speak into it himself. The second was the American military. In 1996, Qatar spent over a billion dollars building an air base at Al Udeid, outside Doha. It got the longest runway in the Gulf and shelters for nearly a hundred aircraft. Qatar's air force only had about a dozen fighter jets. In 1999 he reportedly told US officials he wanted 10,000 American servicemen stationed there permanently. Then 9/11 happened, and they came. The genius part: Al Udeid is now the forward headquarters of US Central Command and the largest American base in the Middle East, with roughly 10,000 troops. Qatar charges no rent. He built the asset before the customer existed, handed it over free, and bought the one thing cash cannot: The US military parked permanently between his gas and everyone who wanted it. The network broadcasting bin Laden and the runway flying America's war sat in the same tiny country, paid for by the same man. Then he went shopping... He set up the Qatar Investment Authority in 2005: - Harrods - The Shard - Canary Wharf, London's largest property owner, bought with Brookfield for 2.6 billion pounds - 17% of Volkswagen - Paris Saint-Germain All his. In 2017 the Telegraph ran the headline "Qataris own more of London than the Queen." Then 2008 arrived. Barclays needed billions or the British government was going to own it. Qatar wrote the cheque and its stake climbed to 12.7%. Barclays was later charged over how it disclosed that Qatari money. In 2010, FIFA handed the 2022 World Cup to a desert country with NO football history. Corruption allegations shadowed the bid for over a decade, and the treatment of the migrant workers who built it drew brutal criticism. Yet he walked into the opening match in 2022 and the stadium gave him a standing ovation. Every other Gulf state was selling the same molecule at the same price. Hamad spent his money on a newsroom, a runway, a football club and half of London. A country of two million now brokers hostage deals and hosts American presidents. He built all of it in 18 years, and he took the throne from his own father to start. Truly an unmatched legacy.
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This man stole a country from his own father and spent the next 18 years buying the West with gas money. - He deposed his own dad in a palace coup and left him in exile for nearly a decade - He founded the news network that aired Osama bin Laden's tapes - He built America's largest military base in the Middle East and charges no rent for it - He bought Harrods, the Shard, Canary Wharf, Paris Saint-Germain and 17% of Volkswagen - He won the 2022 World Cup for a country with no football history Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died this morning at 74. Here's how bought the world: In June 1995, he waited for his father to leave the country, then took the throne. The coup was bloodless. His father spent nearly a decade in exile. Qatar is about one third the size of Belgium, and its population was barely two million, most of them foreign workers. But it was sitting on one of the LARGEST natural gas reserves on Earth. He bet everything on liquefied natural gas. Qatar became the world's biggest LNG exporter and one of the richest countries alive per person. Then he hit the problem every commodity business hits: Gas is gas, anyone with a tanker can sell it, and a tiny country with no army and that much money is a snack for its neighbours. So he bought two things nobody else in the Gulf thought to buy... The first was the world's attention. In 1996 he issued a decree and Al Jazeera was born. Within a few years it was the most influential news network in the Arab world. He owned the loudest microphone in the region and never had to speak into it himself. The second was the American military. In 1996, Qatar spent over a billion dollars building an air base at Al Udeid, outside Doha. It got the longest runway in the Gulf and shelters for nearly a hundred aircraft. Qatar's air force only had about a dozen fighter jets. In 1999 he reportedly told US officials he wanted 10,000 American servicemen stationed there permanently. Then 9/11 happened, and they came. The genius part: Al Udeid is now the forward headquarters of US Central Command and the largest American base in the Middle East, with roughly 10,000 troops. Qatar charges no rent. He built the asset before the customer existed, handed it over free, and bought the one thing cash cannot: The US military parked permanently between his gas and everyone who wanted it. The network broadcasting bin Laden and the runway flying America's war sat in the same tiny country, paid for by the same man. Then he went shopping... He set up the Qatar Investment Authority in 2005: - Harrods - The Shard - Canary Wharf, London's largest property owner, bought with Brookfield for 2.6 billion pounds - 17% of Volkswagen - Paris Saint-Germain All his. In 2017 the Telegraph ran the headline "Qataris own more of London than the Queen." Then 2008 arrived. Barclays needed billions or the British government was going to own it. Qatar wrote the cheque and its stake climbed to 12.7%. Barclays was later charged over how it disclosed that Qatari money. In 2010, FIFA handed the 2022 World Cup to a desert country with NO football history. Corruption allegations shadowed the bid for over a decade, and the treatment of the migrant workers who built it drew brutal criticism. Yet he walked into the opening match in 2022 and the stadium gave him a standing ovation. Every other Gulf state was selling the same molecule at the same price. Hamad spent his money on a newsroom, a runway, a football club and half of London. A country of two million now brokers hostage deals and hosts American presidents. He built all of it in 18 years, and he took the throne from his own father to start. Truly an unmatched legacy.

Ricardo

2,152,767 次观看 • 2 个月前

JEREMY GRANTHAM JUST CALLED THIS THE MOST EXPENSIVE MARKET IN AMERICAN HISTORY The GMO co-founder built his name calling the 2000 and 2021 bubbles. On CNBC, he was asked how far stocks fall when this one breaks. His number is bigger than people expect: Grantham said getting back to trend from here looks closer to a 70% decline than a 50% one. His reasoning is that since 2010, the market's PE has averaged more than 60% above its prior 100-year norm. On timing, he was blunt that nobody can pin it: the peak could come anywhere from two weeks ago to two years from now. On AI specifically, he put it alongside railroads and the internet. World-changing inventions, every one of them accompanied by overinvestment and a temporary collapse where, in his words, everyone in the end loses their shirt. His track record on the size of the drop: he called for a 75% NASDAQ decline in 2000. It fell 82%.
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JEREMY GRANTHAM JUST CALLED THIS THE MOST EXPENSIVE MARKET IN AMERICAN HISTORY The GMO co-founder built his name calling the 2000 and 2021 bubbles. On CNBC, he was asked how far stocks fall when this one breaks. His number is bigger than people expect: Grantham said getting back to trend from here looks closer to a 70% decline than a 50% one. His reasoning is that since 2010, the market's PE has averaged more than 60% above its prior 100-year norm. On timing, he was blunt that nobody can pin it: the peak could come anywhere from two weeks ago to two years from now. On AI specifically, he put it alongside railroads and the internet. World-changing inventions, every one of them accompanied by overinvestment and a temporary collapse where, in his words, everyone in the end loses their shirt. His track record on the size of the drop: he called for a 75% NASDAQ decline in 2000. It fell 82%.

WOLF

150,123 次观看 • 2 个月前

Warren Buffett built the biggest cash pile in market history. He spent three years selling stocks and buying almost nothing. Then he stepped aside, and his successor did the EXACT opposite. The crazy part? He just made INSANE history... Buffett had piled up nearly 400 billion dollars in cash. That is more money than most whole countries produce. He kept it in safe government bonds earning about 4 percent. He was quietly waiting for stocks to get cheap again. That crash never came and the market kept setting records. So his giant cash pile just sat there and waited. That cash still earned him over 12 billion dollars yearly. He even sold most of his huge Apple stake along the way. Early this year the company bought back almost no stock. It spent only 234 million dollars, tiny for a giant like this. Then Abel took over and the pace suddenly exploded. Early filings suggest he bought back billions in one quarter. It may be the biggest stock buyback in Berkshire's history. A buyback simply means he judged his own stock as cheap. Now comes the part almost everyone missed. He did not pour that cash into the record-high market. He bought Berkshire's own shares instead. He also spent 8.5 billion dollars buying a homebuilder. Buying his own company was the one bet he trusted. Most people watched stocks hit new highs and piled in. The best investor alive was quietly doing the opposite. Berkshire even trailed the market by about seven points this year. He treated nearly every other stock as too expensive. He would rather hold cash than overpay for anything. Sitting in cash looked boring and even wrong for years. But patient and boring is often how real money is made. The crowd chases the top while the patient wait for value. Retail chased the record highs. The patient waited for the price. That's the whole game.
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Warren Buffett built the biggest cash pile in market history. He spent three years selling stocks and buying almost nothing. Then he stepped aside, and his successor did the EXACT opposite. The crazy part? He just made INSANE history... Buffett had piled up nearly 400 billion dollars in cash. That is more money than most whole countries produce. He kept it in safe government bonds earning about 4 percent. He was quietly waiting for stocks to get cheap again. That crash never came and the market kept setting records. So his giant cash pile just sat there and waited. That cash still earned him over 12 billion dollars yearly. He even sold most of his huge Apple stake along the way. Early this year the company bought back almost no stock. It spent only 234 million dollars, tiny for a giant like this. Then Abel took over and the pace suddenly exploded. Early filings suggest he bought back billions in one quarter. It may be the biggest stock buyback in Berkshire's history. A buyback simply means he judged his own stock as cheap. Now comes the part almost everyone missed. He did not pour that cash into the record-high market. He bought Berkshire's own shares instead. He also spent 8.5 billion dollars buying a homebuilder. Buying his own company was the one bet he trusted. Most people watched stocks hit new highs and piled in. The best investor alive was quietly doing the opposite. Berkshire even trailed the market by about seven points this year. He treated nearly every other stock as too expensive. He would rather hold cash than overpay for anything. Sitting in cash looked boring and even wrong for years. But patient and boring is often how real money is made. The crowd chases the top while the patient wait for value. Retail chased the record highs. The patient waited for the price. That's the whole game.

Logan Weaver

54,241 次观看 • 1 个月前

#WATCH | Indian Judoka Harsh Singh bagged the Gold medal in men's 60 kg category at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. At their residence in Delhi, Babli Singh - his mother, says, "My son has worked really hard right from the beginning. He had also suffered injuries and broken a bone, everyone told him to leave Judo, that it would damage his body. But he refused, he was determined to focus on the sport. He made Judo his everything. He watched only Judo on TV and his phone. He started trying Judo when he was only 8-years-old. It feels great. He has won a medal for the country and made the country proud. He is elated..."
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#WATCH | Indian Judoka Harsh Singh bagged the Gold medal in men's 60 kg category at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. At their residence in Delhi, Babli Singh - his mother, says, "My son has worked really hard right from the beginning. He had also suffered injuries and broken a bone, everyone told him to leave Judo, that it would damage his body. But he refused, he was determined to focus on the sport. He made Judo his everything. He watched only Judo on TV and his phone. He started trying Judo when he was only 8-years-old. It feels great. He has won a medal for the country and made the country proud. He is elated..."

ANI

30,512 次观看 • 1 个月前

Warren Buffett bought a dying textile mill out of pure spite. It became a $1 TRILLION company. He still calls it the dumbest decision of his career. > In 1962 Buffett was running a small investment partnership called Buffett Partnership Ltd > He spotted Berkshire Hathaway a failing textile mill in Massachusetts. > Every time the mill closed a factory they bought back their own shares at a small premium. > Buffett kept buying shares and flipping them back for a tiny profit. > In 1964 CEO Seabury Stanton shook hands with Buffett and verbally agreed to buy his shares at $11.50 each. > When the written offer arrived it said $11.375 exactly 12.5 cents less than agreed. > Buffett wrote later that he felt "chiseled". > Instead of selling he went and bought every single share he could find. > By May 1965 Buffett Partnership had taken control of Berkshire Hathaway. > He fired Stanton on the spot. > He had just spent $14 MILLION buying a dying textile business out of pure spite. > For years it earned almost nothing. > His partner Charlie Munger told him from day one it was a catastrophic mistake. > Buffett ignored him, then he started using Berkshire as a shell to buy insurance companies and invest the premiums. > That single pivot triggered entirely by anger over 12.5 CENTS built one of the greatest investment empires in history. > Berkshire Hathaway is now worth over $1 TRILLION. > It holds $325 BILLION in cash alone more than the GDP of most countries. > Buffett retired as CEO on December 31 2025 at age 95 after 60 years. > In a 2010 CNBC interview he called Berkshire "the dumbest stock I ever bought". > He estimated his anger over 12.5 cents cost him $200 BILLION in lost compounding. > His net worth today is $150 BILLION almost entirely from the company he bought out of spite. The most expensive argument in business history started with 12.5 cents.
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Warren Buffett bought a dying textile mill out of pure spite. It became a $1 TRILLION company. He still calls it the dumbest decision of his career. > In 1962 Buffett was running a small investment partnership called Buffett Partnership Ltd > He spotted Berkshire Hathaway a failing textile mill in Massachusetts. > Every time the mill closed a factory they bought back their own shares at a small premium. > Buffett kept buying shares and flipping them back for a tiny profit. > In 1964 CEO Seabury Stanton shook hands with Buffett and verbally agreed to buy his shares at $11.50 each. > When the written offer arrived it said $11.375 exactly 12.5 cents less than agreed. > Buffett wrote later that he felt "chiseled". > Instead of selling he went and bought every single share he could find. > By May 1965 Buffett Partnership had taken control of Berkshire Hathaway. > He fired Stanton on the spot. > He had just spent $14 MILLION buying a dying textile business out of pure spite. > For years it earned almost nothing. > His partner Charlie Munger told him from day one it was a catastrophic mistake. > Buffett ignored him, then he started using Berkshire as a shell to buy insurance companies and invest the premiums. > That single pivot triggered entirely by anger over 12.5 CENTS built one of the greatest investment empires in history. > Berkshire Hathaway is now worth over $1 TRILLION. > It holds $325 BILLION in cash alone more than the GDP of most countries. > Buffett retired as CEO on December 31 2025 at age 95 after 60 years. > In a 2010 CNBC interview he called Berkshire "the dumbest stock I ever bought". > He estimated his anger over 12.5 cents cost him $200 BILLION in lost compounding. > His net worth today is $150 BILLION almost entirely from the company he bought out of spite. The most expensive argument in business history started with 12.5 cents.

Jeremy

46,370 次观看 • 4 个月前

This painting shows the most heartbreaking reunion in all of literature. To understand it, you have to know who the dog is... His name is Argos, and he belongs to Ulysses, the Greek hero also known as Odysseus. Before Ulysses sailed away to fight in the Trojan War, he had raised Argos from a puppy, a fast and beautiful hunting dog. Then the war called, and Ulysses left. He would not come home for twenty years. When Ulysses finally set foot on his own island again, he came in disguise, dressed as a beggar, so that no one would know him. His house was full of men trying to steal his wife and his kingdom. To survive, he had to remain a stranger in his own home. No one recognized him. Not his loyal servants. Not the people who had known him all his life. But lying in the dirt by the gate, old and forgotten, covered in ticks, too weak to stand, was a dog. Argos had waited twenty years. And the moment he saw him, he knew. He was the only one. Nearly blind, half dead, he lifted his head and pricked up his ears, and he wagged his tail for the master he had never stopped waiting for. Ulysses saw him. And because he was in disguise, surrounded by enemies, he could not run to him, could not kneel down, could not say his name. He could only look at his old friend and, turning his face away so no one would see, let a single tear fall. And then, in Homer's own words, "the dark shadow of death closed down on Argos' eyes, the instant he had seen Odysseus, twenty years away." He had held on to life for one reason only: he was waiting to see him come home. And the moment he did, he could finally let go... It is such a beautiful painting, and the look on that dog's face is so universal, so instantly understood by anyone who has ever loved and waited, that it is enough to bring a grown man to tears.
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This painting shows the most heartbreaking reunion in all of literature. To understand it, you have to know who the dog is... His name is Argos, and he belongs to Ulysses, the Greek hero also known as Odysseus. Before Ulysses sailed away to fight in the Trojan War, he had raised Argos from a puppy, a fast and beautiful hunting dog. Then the war called, and Ulysses left. He would not come home for twenty years. When Ulysses finally set foot on his own island again, he came in disguise, dressed as a beggar, so that no one would know him. His house was full of men trying to steal his wife and his kingdom. To survive, he had to remain a stranger in his own home. No one recognized him. Not his loyal servants. Not the people who had known him all his life. But lying in the dirt by the gate, old and forgotten, covered in ticks, too weak to stand, was a dog. Argos had waited twenty years. And the moment he saw him, he knew. He was the only one. Nearly blind, half dead, he lifted his head and pricked up his ears, and he wagged his tail for the master he had never stopped waiting for. Ulysses saw him. And because he was in disguise, surrounded by enemies, he could not run to him, could not kneel down, could not say his name. He could only look at his old friend and, turning his face away so no one would see, let a single tear fall. And then, in Homer's own words, "the dark shadow of death closed down on Argos' eyes, the instant he had seen Odysseus, twenty years away." He had held on to life for one reason only: he was waiting to see him come home. And the moment he did, he could finally let go... It is such a beautiful painting, and the look on that dog's face is so universal, so instantly understood by anyone who has ever loved and waited, that it is enough to bring a grown man to tears.

James Lucas

107,414 次观看 • 2 个月前

Warren Buffett just warned that some of the biggest names in AI might collapse soon. And he said it while revealing he had personally put $31 billion into one of them... Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are now laying out hundreds of billions in capex to stay in the AI race. Buffett called that real money, the kind that was never required back when software was cheap to run. He said these companies have no choice but to keep spending at this scale, because none of them can afford to be the one that blinks. In his own words, they are "playing a game they don't want to play." But the one AI company Buffett actually bought is Google. Berkshire now holds a stake worth more than $31 billion, and for weeks Wall Street assumed the credit belonged to Greg Abel, who took over as CEO in January and ran the position up on his watch. But Buffett admitted he "initiated" the investment. He usually never reveals who makes a call. The Google position already sits behind only Apple and American Express in Berkshire's stock portfolio, and last month Berkshire bought $10 billion of it directly from the company in a private placement. Then he undercut his own trade. When asked why he chose Alphabet over the rest of the Mag 7, Buffett said he does not even like it as much as four or five other businesses Berkshire already owns. He bought it the way he buys anything, as a good company available at a fair price. For years he waved off the Apple question by calling it a consumer company. This time he let the AI label on Google stand, and bought it anyway. Buffett also said the vast majority of what Wall Street pushes, on the order of 90 to 95%, is merchandising, because Wall Street only cares whether it can sell you something. He said he cannot remember the last research report that dug into the actual returns a business earns. Everyone fixates on next quarter instead. He also brought up IBM, which owned its market for decades until a rival offered its customers a better deal and its best business cracked. He brought up A&P, the biggest retailer in America in the 1930s, a company he said held a commanding position that later vanished completely. Buffett was describing the AI leaders as much as anyone: The most dominant company on Earth today is not promised to be dominant in ten years. So the most famous technology skeptic in investing put $31 billion into the AI trade and at the same time warned that the companies leading it are stuck in a war with no exit. What does Buffett see coming that the rest of the market doesn't?
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Warren Buffett just warned that some of the biggest names in AI might collapse soon. And he said it while revealing he had personally put $31 billion into one of them... Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are now laying out hundreds of billions in capex to stay in the AI race. Buffett called that real money, the kind that was never required back when software was cheap to run. He said these companies have no choice but to keep spending at this scale, because none of them can afford to be the one that blinks. In his own words, they are "playing a game they don't want to play." But the one AI company Buffett actually bought is Google. Berkshire now holds a stake worth more than $31 billion, and for weeks Wall Street assumed the credit belonged to Greg Abel, who took over as CEO in January and ran the position up on his watch. But Buffett admitted he "initiated" the investment. He usually never reveals who makes a call. The Google position already sits behind only Apple and American Express in Berkshire's stock portfolio, and last month Berkshire bought $10 billion of it directly from the company in a private placement. Then he undercut his own trade. When asked why he chose Alphabet over the rest of the Mag 7, Buffett said he does not even like it as much as four or five other businesses Berkshire already owns. He bought it the way he buys anything, as a good company available at a fair price. For years he waved off the Apple question by calling it a consumer company. This time he let the AI label on Google stand, and bought it anyway. Buffett also said the vast majority of what Wall Street pushes, on the order of 90 to 95%, is merchandising, because Wall Street only cares whether it can sell you something. He said he cannot remember the last research report that dug into the actual returns a business earns. Everyone fixates on next quarter instead. He also brought up IBM, which owned its market for decades until a rival offered its customers a better deal and its best business cracked. He brought up A&P, the biggest retailer in America in the 1930s, a company he said held a commanding position that later vanished completely. Buffett was describing the AI leaders as much as anyone: The most dominant company on Earth today is not promised to be dominant in ten years. So the most famous technology skeptic in investing put $31 billion into the AI trade and at the same time warned that the companies leading it are stuck in a war with no exit. What does Buffett see coming that the rest of the market doesn't?

Ricardo

230,573 次观看 • 2 个月前

Jordan Belfort owed 1,513 victims $110.4M and the clock ran out in April 2026 with $96.65M still unpaid. The tape is from December 1994. Lake Success, Long Island. A 32-year-old grabs a hand mic in front of a room of brokers who are standing on their chairs, and he screams at them about a telephone. He is not hiding. He is being filmed. On purpose. That's the part everyone misses. By that Christmas, Stratton Oakmont had been under NASD scrutiny for 5 years. 1,378 employees. 35 offerings. The largest over-the-counter firm in the country, built on one move: buy the stock cheap, scream it up the phone, then refuse to place a client's sell order. He threw a party and taped it. In April 1996 regulators barred the firm from retail transactions. In December they expelled it. In 1999 he was indicted for manipulating at least 34 companies across 7 years. Then he wore a wire on the men in that room. 4 years. He served 22 months. The court ordered $110.4M back to 1,513 clients. By 2018 they had been credited $12.8M, and roughly $11M of that came from government seizures, not from him. His own payments over 11 years: about $1.8M. He sold his life rights for $1.2M. $21,000 of it reached the victims. The film about him grossed more than $390M. After 2018 the obligation was $10,000 a month. 95 months of that is $950,000. On April 28, 2026, exactly 20 years after his release, the federal collection window closed and he posted that he had completed his restitution. He didn't pay it off. He outlasted it.
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Jordan Belfort owed 1,513 victims $110.4M and the clock ran out in April 2026 with $96.65M still unpaid. The tape is from December 1994. Lake Success, Long Island. A 32-year-old grabs a hand mic in front of a room of brokers who are standing on their chairs, and he screams at them about a telephone. He is not hiding. He is being filmed. On purpose. That's the part everyone misses. By that Christmas, Stratton Oakmont had been under NASD scrutiny for 5 years. 1,378 employees. 35 offerings. The largest over-the-counter firm in the country, built on one move: buy the stock cheap, scream it up the phone, then refuse to place a client's sell order. He threw a party and taped it. In April 1996 regulators barred the firm from retail transactions. In December they expelled it. In 1999 he was indicted for manipulating at least 34 companies across 7 years. Then he wore a wire on the men in that room. 4 years. He served 22 months. The court ordered $110.4M back to 1,513 clients. By 2018 they had been credited $12.8M, and roughly $11M of that came from government seizures, not from him. His own payments over 11 years: about $1.8M. He sold his life rights for $1.2M. $21,000 of it reached the victims. The film about him grossed more than $390M. After 2018 the obligation was $10,000 a month. 95 months of that is $950,000. On April 28, 2026, exactly 20 years after his release, the federal collection window closed and he posted that he had completed his restitution. He didn't pay it off. He outlasted it.

klaxxon

2,196,863 次观看 • 8 天前