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In 1998, two Stanford grad students convinced their professor to invest $100,000 in their search engine startup company. That startup's name? Google.

Imagine how rich you'd be if you gave the founders of Google a check for $250,000 back in 1998. Ram Shriram doesn't have to imagine.

Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts, earned $100 million then blew all of it on a lavish lifestyle that included mansions, private jets, luxury cars and a whole bunch of awful tax advice.

Warren Buffett has only been the richest person in the world ONCE, back in 2008. And his time up top was brief. But that's not the whole story…

Before it was a $5 billion brand, Victoria's Secret was just one man's awkward trip to the lingerie section. Roy Raymond had the vision—but not the empire-building instinct. His story is one of brilliance, heartbreak, and the brutal cost of being early.

In in the mid-60s, an Omaha man named Myer Kripke humbly asked his neighbor, a young upstart money manager named Warren Buffett, to manage a small life savings. Wait till you hear how that turned out…

According to Warren Buffett's youngest child Peter, his father has imparted a more lasting legacy on him than the money from his multi-billion fortune ever could.

Let's say you were somehow lucky enough to have invested $1000 with Warren Buffett back when he started out in 1965… How much money would you have today?

With just a slightly different roll of the dice, there's a very real scenario where Anna Nicole Smith could have owned around 8% of Koch Industries. That would have made her a multi-billionaire today.

Imagine getting paid $400,000 every time you had sex AND you got to have sex for that fee hundreds of times a year for years and years. That's the life of the biggest studs in the world. Horse studs.

From $1,200 underdogs to $100 million stud fees, explore the staggering wealth, risk, and reward behind America's most iconic horse race.

He was 22, a rising NBA star, and the first athlete ever offered a deal by a tiny shoe startup named Nike. The offer: $100,000 or a stake in the company. What happened next became one of the most painful missed fortunes in sports history.

Ronald Wayne co-founded Apple, sold his stake for $800, and vanished into obscurity. Nearly 50 years later, he's back — starring in a Busch Light ad that pokes fun at the most infamous financial mistake in history.

49 years ago, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and a guy you've never heard of co-founded Apple Inc. That "other guy" would soon make the worst financial decision in human history.

With a slight twist of fate, John Elway could be approaching billionaire status right now thanks to a relatively small investment back in 1998. Unfortunately, that's not how the cookie crumbled.