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Berkshire Hathaway has returned about 800,000% since inception.

Oracle has returned around 80,000% since IPO. Dell, Cisco, Microsoft, AOL, numerous others all pulled a greater than 10,000% return post IPO.

Las Vegas Sands managed around a 7,000% return from the 2009 bottom to recent top.

What do you suppose Andy Bechtolsheim's $100k check / investment into Google returned?

There are in fact plenty of examples in recent history of extraordinary returns on par with or far exceeding that 10,000% level.




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