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Billions to Bust - and Beyond (New and Updated Edition)
How I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way
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eBook - ePub
Billions to Bust - and Beyond (New and Updated Edition)
How I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way
About this book
Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled adventure capitalist who became Iceland's first billionaire: by his 40th birthday he had assets of around $4 billion. Among them was investment in Iceland's oldest bank, Landsbanki - but in the 2008 financial meltdown, Landsbanki crashed, taking Bjorgolfsson with it. He lost nearly everything, yet amazingly by 2014 had made good his losses, repaid his creditors and rebuilt his empire. This new and extensively revised edition brings the buccaneering story of his extraordinary and ambitious achievements fully up to date.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Billions to bust
- Chapter 2: A tale of two Thors: 1967–1986
- Chapter 3: Adventure capitalism in Russia: 1986–2002
- Chapter 4: Exceptional returns in emerging Europe: 1999–2008
- Chapter 5: Never go back: 2000–2007
- Chapter 6: The very public meltdown of God’s frozen people: 2008–2009
- Chapter 7: How to lose $4 billion in ten months: 2008–2009
- Chapter 8: Aftershock: 2009–2014
- Chapter 9: New horizons: 2014–2023
- Chapter 10: Adventure capitalism 2.0: 2014–2023
- Chapter 11: This time is never different?
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Plates Section
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