Thor Bjorgolfsson

Billions to Bust - and Beyond (New and Updated Edition) (eBook, ePUB)

How I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled adventure capitalist who became Iceland's first billionaire: by his 40th birthday he had assets of around $4 billion. Among them was investment in Iceland's oldest bank, Landsbanki - but in the 2008 financial meltdown, Landsbanki crashed, taking Bjorgolfsson with it. He lost nearly everything, yet amazingly by 2014 had made good his losses, repaid his creditors and rebuilt his empire. This new and extensively revised edition brings the buccaneering story of his extraordinary and ambitious achievements fully up to date.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805220244
• Artikelnr.: 68079415

Autorenporträt

Thor Bjorgolfsson made his first $100 million in 2002 from the sale of the Russian Bravo brewery business to Heineken. He set up and heads the investment firm Novator, a platform for global investments from generic pharmaceuticals to mobile telecoms. He lives in London.

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