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Tesla's biggest investment was $56bn... on Musk
How Tesla proved sometimes the founder is the product
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Facebook turned small rounds into $15B in value
Why sometimes momentum beats magnitude in early-stage capital
Barclays’ £11.8B raise that haunts them 16 years later
A practical lesson in why clean deals age better
Tesco sold 1.5 billion extra shares, then paid investors back £9.25 billion
If only the meal deal had held up as well as Tesco’s equity did
Taylor Swift’s $1.6B path to monopoly power
Founders don’t need another MBA, they need to study Swiftonomics
How Blank Street brewed a $500M valuation
Turns out “good enough” coffee + flawless execution beats fancy latte art
Ramsay raised $100M for Hell’s Kitchen, not haute cuisine
Prestige feeds your ego. Airtime feeds your cap table
Pret poured £63M free coffees. What it really banked was customer behaviour.
Which is how a loss-making chain ends up with a £2bn price tag.
£4.2B in funding: Klarna’s capital fix
Dependency packaged as convenience - and why investors still buy it
From hot dogs to HubSpot - how Sam Parr built a media empire
Spoiler: he raised $1M in seed funding and exited with $27M