In 1991 Marvel burst onto Wall Street with a simple yet groundbreaking way of interweaving corporate storytelling with its Marvel characters

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How a ∼$100M comic book company captured the interest of investors and revolutionized the investor relations industry through unique storytelling methods and mediums of communication

∼20 years later they would be acquired by Disney $DIS for $4B

The Billion Dollar Burrito

How a gourmet chef stumbled into creating a $40B+ fast-casual business selling burritos

A🧵on Chipotle $CMG After graduating from culinary school in 1990, Steve Ells went to work for a famous restaurant in San Francisco called Stars

While there Ells fell in love with the mission-style burritos served on the streets

So when he moved to Denver, CO he decided to open up his own version

The Trade of the Century

How George Soros single-handedly crashed the British Pound and made off with $1.5B+

A 🧵on Black Wednesday Some background

After WWII numerous European countries signed treaties in order to strengthen each other's economies

In addition to signing treaties, countries began to discuss creating a central European currency

The story of Airbnb $ABNB

How two struggling design students & a Harvard computer scientist kept their startup afloat by selling presidential-branded cereal

A🧵on the founding of Air Bed & Breakfast Let's set the scene

It's late 2007 and Brian Chesky has just moved in with his former RISD classmate, Joe Gebbia in San Francisco

Brian had just quit his job as an industrial designer in LA and moved to the bay with $1,000 in his bank account

Twitched Out

How Justin Kan went from filming himself 24/7 to helping build the largest streaming platform for gaming and selling it to Amazon $AMZN for $970M

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The History of #Bitcoin Price Crashes

A look back into the largest hacks and crashes of the violtilate asset that could change the world

A 🧵of the top six moments 1/ June 2011: Mt Gox Hack

In its infancy, Bitcoin was traded on niche exchanges like Mt Gox

After the price of Bitcoin soared from from $2 to $32, hackers got into administrative accounts at the exchange and started to sell

The price of Bitcoin dropped to a penny.

The Invisible CEO

How one Enron exec got extremely lucky and walked away with $270M, a new stripper wife, and a slap on the wrist from the SEC

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The Flash Crash of 2010

How a solo British Trader Wiped $1T off the US Stock Market while trading from his parents house in London, UK

Time for a Ticker History 🧵on Navinder Sarao Its 2002 and 22-year-old graduate Navinder Sarao is flipping through the newspaper at his parents home just outside of London

Nav sees an ad that reads, “Wanted. Futures Traders. Must work well under pressure.”

Nav, having a great mind for multiplication, decides to apply