|#397 MWAVC| — Unofficial list of the 16 greatest investments ever (Minimum gain of $1B)
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Thinking about what to do with your money? Take some bets. A great thread from Trung.
1/ The best of the best
Naspers - Tencent (2001): $32m -> $250B (7800x)
Softbank - Alibaba (2000): $20m -> $100B (5000x)
2/ The Facebook winners
Saverin - FB (2004): $15k --> $14B (866,666x)
Peter Theil - FB (2004): $500k --> $1B (2000x)
3/ The Google winners
Sequoia/Kleiner - GOOGL (1999): $13m --> $20B (1500x)
Jeff Bezos - Google (1998): $250k --> $5B (20,000x)
Andy Bechrolsheim - Google (1998): $100k --> $1.5B (15,000x)
4/ The "Friends & Family" winners
Jackie & Mike Bezos - Amazon (1995): $250k --> $20B - $60B (80,000x to 240,000x)
Bruce McKean (Tobi's father-in-law) - Shopify (2007): ~$200k --> $7B (35,000x)
John & Cathy Phillips - Shopify (2007-09): $750k --> $4.4B (6000x)
5/ Other bangers
SIG-Bytedance (2012): $5m --> $15B (3000x)
Steve Jobs - Pixar (1986): $5m --> $7.4B (1480x)
Ruby Lu - Kuaishou: $40m --> $12B (300x)
FB - IG (2012): $1B -> $250B (250x)
GOOGL - YT: $1.6B --> $300B (200x)
eBay - Paypal (2002): $1.5B --> $100B (70x)
9/ Crypto winners
Novogratz-Ether (2015): $500k --> $10B (2000x)
Winklevii-BTC (2013): $11m --> $5.5B (500x)
10/ Elon’s bets on himself
Tesla: $70m --> $120B (1714x)
SpaceX: $100m --> $40B (400x)
Elon Musk said this: “Had no money to invest in Zip2, but my founder equity yielded ~$15M after tax. Of that, I rolled ~$10M into PayPal, which yielded ~$180M, then … Basic principle is that I would not ask investors to risk money on my company if I would not also do so.”
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