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A blood-testing startup reached a $9 billion valuation the same year it earned $100,000. One investor caught it with a single blood test. Everyone else wired the money.

A founder sold his company for $5.7 billion in stock he was legally barred from selling. What he built to protect it paid him more than the sale did.

A messaging app sold for $19 billion. Its founder signed the papers on the building where he had once queued for food stamps.

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