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How to Spot a Supertrend - by Mario Gabriele

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🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor, founder, and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Become a member today. Illustration by Harol Bustos Friends, As a hedge fund investor at D.E. Shaw, thirty-year-old Jeff Bezos encountered a staggering statistic: the World Wide Web was growing at 2,300% per year. At first, Bezos wasn’t sure what to do with that information. He came up with the concept of selling books online but still wondered whether…

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