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Value: After Hours S03 E21 LEAPs and Cash Hedges, Crypto and The Gold Rush, Growth Back On

The Acquirers Podcast

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The Golden Age of the California Gold Rush

In the gold rush, about half of those who arrived made a modest profit. Most merchants eventually end up failing too. The ones who popped up to service this population and cave for a few exceptions like levi strauss. It's usually some combination of audacity and goodu that come together to get you super rich overnight. And we saw that in agriculture in california at later periods,. oil drillers like getty a. You had, you know, obviously, like hollywood and movie making - people coming to be actors and actresses and wanting to get rich overnight. We took a lumber mill that could produce lumber, like, we had to burn it to stay warm.

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