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To: MrLucky who wrote (252881)6/3/2008 3:29:57 PM
From: goldworldnet  Respond to of 793801
 
Nicholas Leeson bankrupted Barings Bank when he was 28 too.

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To: MrLucky who wrote (252881)6/3/2008 3:31:11 PM
From: mph  Respond to of 793801
 
Yeah, and someone hits the lottery every week or two as well.



To: MrLucky who wrote (252881)6/3/2008 3:33:00 PM
From: miraje  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793801
 
His rationale was that two guys, in their twenties, started Google; Face Book without any significant experience and were highly successful.

A lot of these Silicon Valley techie geeks may know plenty about iPods and microchips, but they're a bunch of naive children, at best, when it comes to issues such as economics, politics and energy. Take them out of their area of expertise, and many of them are clueless..


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