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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. One of the top five largest IPOs in the world was done by the reformed General Motors in 2010, and the company generated a profit. When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine. 24- Jan Koum.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. Of the 43 U.S.-based