Ebook: Billions to bust-- and back: how I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way
Author: Bjorgolfsson Thor, Cave Andrew
- Tags: Billionaires, Billionaires--Iceland, Businesspeople, Businesspeople--Iceland, Economic history, Financial crises, Financial crises--Iceland, Finanzkrise, Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009, Biography, Biographies, Autobiographies, Bjorgolfsson Thor, Billionaires -- Iceland -- Biography, Businesspeople -- Iceland -- Biography, Financial crises -- Iceland, Iceland -- Economic conditions -- 21st century, Iceland, Island
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Profile Books
- City: Iceland;Island
- Language: English
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After 10 years establishing his financial empire with alco-pops and beer in the lawless 'Wild East' of newly-capitalist Russia in the 1990s, Thor Bjorgolfsson moved on to merging, floating, spinning off and privatising businesses. On his 40th birthday, and worth 3.5 billion, he was sitting on top of the world. But when financial meltdown hit Iceland in October 2008, Landsbanki crashed and burned, taking Bjorgolfsson with it. Within 12 months he had lost 98.5% of his wealth - and was treated as a scapegoat in his native country.
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