Shaan Puri's former intern turned $100K into $5M on delisted stock
Shaan Puri · How To Grow A Small Agency Into A Billion Dollar Company (#414) · Feb 2, 2023 · at 49:53
Sean Puri explains how several of his early interns and young mentees generated significant wealth.
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“He went all in. He took basically, he had like a hundred grand saved up after For a couple of years of working for me and then for a friend I introduced him to, and he took the hundred grand and he just bought, there was a stock that got delisted on a stock exchange. So all the shareholders were like, damn it, what do we do with this stock that we can't trade anymore? It's like illiquid. And so he bought it all for like 10 cents on the dollar being like, I don't know, I still believe. And then that ran up to be worth a few million dollars. his hundred K basically turned into like a two to five million dollar stake.”
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