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Fortunes DNA
by Felix Farias
Welcome to Fortunes DNA. Every episode takes one fortune apart from zero to understand how it was built. We specifically focus on: what the subject started with, what the moment handed them, what they decided and every road that would have resulted in them not making their fortune. The mission is to find out how large fortunes are really built and identify the patterns that can be reapplied to generate wealth.
Episodes
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John D. Rockefeller: The Most Dominant Oil Monopoly in History
John D. Rockefeller's company refined about nine barrels of oil in every ten in America, and he never owned more than about a quarter of it. In 1911 the Supreme Court ordered it broken into thirty-four pieces — and over the next thirty-one months his stake went from $300m to more than $900m, two...
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Warren Buffet: The Greatest Investor To Ever Lived
Warren Buffett: nothing behind him in Omaha in 1930, $115 of his own at eleven, $9,800 by twenty, $174,000 when seven people put $105,000 into his partnership and he put in $100, a million by 1962, a billion by 1985, about $150bn today after giving away more than $60bn. A thousand dollars put…
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Jeff Bezos: The Dropshipping OG turned Cloud Multi-Billionaire
The famous version of this story is about his nerve. But the people who actually stood to lose were his parents, and he told them the odds himself. So: whose money was on the table while it could still be lost? Which decisions built the fortune? And how much of it was the market's doing rather…
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Elon Musk: The First Trillionaire
Fortunes DNA takes one fortune apart per episode, from zero. What was inherited, what the moment supplied, and what the subject actually did — separated, and shown as one continuous chain you can follow end to end.Elon Musk: nothing in 1971, $22m in 1999, $175m in 2002, $40m and both companies...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Fortunes DNA. Every episode takes one fortune apart from zero to understand how it was built. We specifically focus on: what the subject started with, what the moment handed them, what they decided and every road that would have resulted in them not making their fortune. The mission is to find out how large fortunes are really built and identify the patterns that can be reapplied to generate wealth.
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Felix Farias
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