A famed American investor who over the two decades from 1980 handed his clients average returns of 25% a year. By 1998 he was overseeing $21bn. His fund determinedly avoided the dotcom mania, and withdrawals forced him to close it in March 2000. As it turned out, the NASDAQ bubble had burst just two days earlier.
I came to MIT to get an education for myself and a diploma for my mother.