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by angry_octet 2244 days ago
My favourite example is Roman Abramovich, who somehow made the transition from reselling rubber ducks from his apartment in 1991 to having $100M to buy an oil company worth $3B, to obscene oligarch wealth a decade later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich

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He is friends with Russian president.
90s Russia was indeed a bizarre place.