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Renaissance Technologies

Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. $1,000 invested in their flagship Medallion fund in 1988 would have…

Oct 2 •

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

This company has it all: a 100+ year history filled with Nobel Prizes, bitter rivalries, breakthrough innovation, lone voices persevering against all…

Sep 25 •

A huge portion of the world’s population uses their products on a daily basis (you might say Visa is… everywhere people want to be), but very few know…

Sep 18 •

Nintendo II (1990-2023)

The epic story of Nintendo’s fall from grace and journey back to the top.

Sep 4 •

Alphabet (2004-2015)

The parade of hits. In this era Google built seven (!) more billion+ user products: Gmail, Maps, Drive and Docs, YouTube, Chrome, Android, and Photos.

Aug 27 •

Nintendo I (1889-1989)

The lovable Nintendo that we know today is a 130 year-old a playing card company (i.e. gambling), forged in the shadowy world of the Yakuza forged by a…

Aug 21 •

Amazon Web Services

So, how DID an online book retailer end up building the infrastructure layer that powers the entire internet? (Or at least 39% of it, per latest market…

Aug 14 •

Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one.

Aug 7 •

The NFL — it’s almost synonymous with America today. And its history is a fascinating lens to explore the nation’s development over the last 100 years…

Jul 31 •

Travel back with us to the granddaddy fraud of them all, 2001’s then-largest bankruptcy in US history and the impetus for the famous Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Jul 24 •

The incredible story of the retail “granddaddy of them all” Walmart, and its founder Sam Walton. Once you study Walmart, you realize just how deep its…

Jul 17 •

NVIDIA III (2022-2023)

NVIDIA's dramatic decline and meteoric rise to become one of the world's most valuable companies unfolded over an 18-month period from 2022 to 2023.

Jul 10 •

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