Marketplace Competition Day Flashcards
This Brazilian Oil Investor went from being the 7th richest man in the world to being off the billionaire’s list in the course of a year. It will go down as one of the largest wealth implosions in modern times. Who is he?
Eike Batista
The failure of a Brazilian man’s oil related businesses and their implosion of wealth has come to signify the “parable” of what?
Emerging market boom.
What did the Brazilian oil man do special with the names of his related companies and what did it symbolize?
They all ended in X signifying the multiplication of wealth.
When referring to his oil assets the Brazilian oil man called them what types of investments?
Idiot Proof
What is the lucky number of Eike Batista?
63
Who is the idol of Eike Batista?
Elon Musk
Defunct Litigation finance firm?
BlackRobe Capital Partners
Litigation funder with $300 million investment pool?
Burford Capital
Breast and ovarian cancer have been tied to what two genetic mutations?
BRCA 1 & BRCA 2
previously written off breast and ovarian caner drugs?
PARP inhibitors
Lexington Based horse auctioneer firm
Fasig-Tipton
Nobel Physics Prize
Englert and Higgs
“for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Karplus, Levitt and Warshel
“for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”
Nobel Prize in Medicine
Rothman, Schekman and Südhof
“for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”
Nobel Prize in Literature
Alice Munro
“master of the contemporary short story”
