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The Websites Of 35 Unicorn Startups Before They Became Billion-Dollar Companies

CB Insights

Want to know who the most valuable private companies in the world are, and how long it took them to get there? Check out venture capitalist Chris Sacca channeling the Dos Equis man in the most interesting testimonial for Uber in the world (bottom right of the website). Download the PDF for all the data behind the unicorn club.

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Surprise Outcomes Edition: Cybercrime, Student Loans And CAN Capital

PYMNTS

Americans, by-and-large, drank the same amount during prohibition as they did before and after — the main difference was that they paid more and bought it from the Mafia, which itself was largely an outgrowth of prohibition. But the world is full of unexpected costs — just ask the team at CAN Capital.

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Cash is a feminist issue

Tomorrow's Transactions

Let’s use a transaction at a local juice bar in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, as a real-world example. From Consumers'' real-world cost of cash: A defining moment for ATM deployers and merchants | ATM Marketplace ]. From Consumers'' real-world cost of cash: A defining moment for ATM deployers and merchants | ATM Marketplace ].

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UK to come under scrutiny in Italy’s largest mafia trial in decades

TheGuardian

Witnesses will be asked to respond to claims the ’Ndrangheta has laundered billions of euros in City of London In a high-security, 1,000-capacity courtroom converted from a call centre, Italy’s largest mafia trial in three decades is under way in Lamezia Terme, Calabria.

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Explaining ~100x revenue multiples for fintech companies using systems theory

Lex Sokolin

Yes, never bet against the PayPal mafia, and Yes, the growth is phenomenal. Traction in the old world is forgotten in favor of the hot new thing?—?integrating The new information to add is that the company is now worth nearly $30 billion on the public markets, up from a bit over $2 billion in 2019.

Company 52
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Explaining ~100x revenue multiples for fintech companies using systems theory

Lex Sokolin

Yes, never bet against the PayPal mafia, and Yes, the growth is phenomenal. Traction in the old world is forgotten in favor of the hot new thing?—?integrating The new information to add is that the company is now worth nearly $30 billion on the public markets, up from a bit over $2 billion in 2019.

Company 52
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Cash, CHF and chuffing hell there’s a $1000 bill

Tomorrow's Transactions

The upshot of it all is that the stack of €500 notes underneath the Mafia boss’ pillow are earning interest for national governments. Sooner or later the law-abiding nations of the world will have to institute sanctions against the Swiss for delivering convenience to the criminal and manna to the money launderers. A no brainer then!