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by encoderer 4894 days ago
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0...
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None of them were amateurs.
BS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall_Capital

They started with $100k pooled together from 3 guys' life savings. How much did they make?

Exactly.

The wikipedia article, short as it is, covers through 2010 when that $100k grew to "100 to 300 Million." Read the latest write-up of them in FT. It's a billion dollar venture now.