Thor Bjorgolfsson

Billions to Bust and Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part confessional, part masterclass - an exuberant manifesto for entrepreneurship by Iceland's first billionaire

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781781253694
• ISBN-10: 1781253692
• Artikelnr.: 40689058

Autorenporträt

Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled 'adventure capitalist' and was Iceland's first billionaire. Born in 1967, his earliest business deal was persuading his father to lend him $80 to buy vintage Marvel and X-Men comics, an investment that he still holds. He made his first $100 million in 2002, from the sale of his Russian Bravo brewery business to Heineken. At the age of 40, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $3.4 billion and featured him on its cover.

Rezensionen

Though the global financial crisis has spawned shoals of instant histories, mostly by small-fry journalists, there are precious few first-hand accounts of what it was like to be one of the big fish swimming in the treacherous economic seas of the past two decades. Now comes Icelandic entrepreneur Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson with a gripping autobiography that describes not only his part in his homeland's banking blow-up but also his earlier career as a brewer in the "Wild East" that was post-Soviet Russia. Anyone who wants to understand the animal spirits that propelled the world economy all the way underwater in 2008 - and then slowly raised it back to the surface again - will relish Billions to Bust and Back Niall Ferguson