@StokPix

Guess the company. True stock stories. I invest in the balanced portfolio. That portfolio, marked every week, won or lost, is in the link below.

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In December 1993, Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street, took a shoe company public. The IPO was rigged; its founder got 41 months. Out in 2005, he went straight back to designing its shoes. Its sales are now 2.5 billion dollars a year. Guess the company.
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In 2018, the boss of Nissan was arrested in Tokyo, accused of hiding half his pay to avoid public anger. While out on bail, he hid in a box made for concert equipment and was flown out on a private jet. He turned up in Beirut, out of Japan's reach. Guess the CEO.
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In 2001, Martha Stewart found out a biotech's CEO was dumping his shares. She sold the day before the FDA refused to review its cancer drug. She got five months in prison, the CEO seven years. The company later sold for 6.5 billion dollars. Guess the company.
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Months after JFK was shot, Warren Buffett bought into a credit card company that had just lost 33%. It had vouched for a conman's salad oil. The oil was mostly water. The conman got 20 years. Guess the company.
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In 2008, Bernie Madoff confessed to a $65B Ponzi scheme. His own bank had suspected him. It warned the British, pulled its own $275M out, and said nothing in America. For that silence it paid a $1.7B penalty. No banker was charged. Guess the company.
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In 1985, Michael Jackson paid $48M for most of the Beatles' songs. Paul McCartney was asked first and said no. He sold half to a company in 1995. He died in 2009 over $500M in debt, and his estate sold the rest to the same company for $750M. Guess the company.
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In 2017, Rupert Murdoch sold his $125M stake in Elizabeth Holmes's blood testing company for one dollar. A pharmacy chain ran her tests in its stores. She asked Murdoch to kill his paper's story that they did not work. It ran. She got 11 years for fraud. Guess the company.
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In 1961, Ray Kroc paid two brothers 2.7 million dollars for their hamburger business and their name. The brothers said he also promised them a cut of every future sale, on a handshake. It was never written down. Guess the company.
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McDonald's. Ray Kroc bought the brothers' name, so they had to rename their own restaurant The Big M. He opened a McDonald's nearby, and the Big M closed.
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In May 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried borrowed 546 million dollars from his own hedge fund and bought 7.6 percent of a stock trading app. He is serving 25 years. The app bought the shares back from the US government for 606 million dollars. Guess the company.
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Robinhood. The shares went from a crypto billionaire to the US Marshals to the company itself, at a 40-million-dollar discount.
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Steve Madden. Belfort did 22 months, Madden 31; the company paid him 600,000 dollars a year to come back and design.
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A week after Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, Warren Buffett put five billion dollars into a Wall Street firm. Within a minute of its board saying yes, one of its own directors leaked it to a hedge fund and later went to prison for two years. Guess the company.
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Goldman Sachs. A firm that nearly died twice, saved once by a janitor's assistant and once by a man from Omaha.
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Palantir, $PLTR. Peter Thiel co-founded it, and its Maven software picked the targets in the Iran war. $10,000 in $PLTR at the end of its first week in October 2020 is about $206,000 now. Buy, sell, or hold $PLTR?
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In 2026, the Pentagon used one company's software to pick more than 13,000 targets in Iran. In October, its co-founder said of the war: "We should not have done it." Guess the company.
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IREN, once Iris Energy. The brothers let the lender have the bitcoin machines and kept the power, which turned out to be what AI wanted. $10,000 in $IREN when it listed in 2021 was worth $627 by Christmas 2022. By May 2026 it was $33,000. $IREN is volatile right now. Are you holding on?
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In November 2022, a lender took nearly 38,000 machines from a bitcoin miner run by two brothers from Sydney. Three years later, Microsoft signed a 9.7 billion dollar AI deal with it. Guess the company.
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@StokPixOct 22
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Little did anyone know. It is tough to stay in.
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GameStop. The shop Ross Perot told to start with one store asked to buy eBay. $10,000 in $GME when it listed in 2002 was under $4,400 by April 2020. Three weeks in January 2021 took it past $500,000. Buy, sell, or hold $GME?
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