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by coldtea 1042 days ago
Not everything is meant literally. When he says they ended up with $0 doesn't have to be $0, just hugely down and nearly worthless compared to before that was doing well.

In the same way $100M could just have been $99M or even $80M, and then $0 they started with could just as well have been $20K in savings he invested.