The “Greenmail” Tactic
by The “Greenmail” Tactic – The Controversial Practice of Paying Raiders to Go Away
Category: Financial Architects
The “Dot-Com” Bubble
by The “Dot-Com” Bubble – The Speculative Frenzy and Crash That Defined the Early Internet Era
The “Corporate Raider” (T. Boone Pickens, Carl Icahn)
by The “Corporate Raider” (T. Boone Pickens, Carl Icahn) – The Hostile Activist Investors Who Shook Up Corporate America
The “Barbarians at the Gate” LBO (RJR Nabisco)
by The “Barbarians at the Gate” LBO (RJR Nabisco) – The Epitome of 1980s Excess and Financial Engineering
The “Venture Capital” Scaling Model (YC, Sequoia, a16z)
The “Venture Capital” Scaling Model (YC, Sequoia, a16z) – Institutionalizing Startup Creation and Hyper-Growth
The “Unicorn” Startup Phenomenon
by The “Unicorn” Startup Phenomenon – The Era of the Billion-Dollar Private Company
Lloyd’s of London
Lloyd’s of London – The Coffee House That Became the World’s Insurance Marketplace
The “FAANG” Stocks Acronym
by The “FAANG” Stocks Acronym – The Investment Mantra of the 2010s Tech Supercycle
Jacob Fugger “the Rich”
Jacob Fugger “the Rich” – The Banker Who Financed Empires and Invented Modern Finance