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This mathematical approach to investing led to the famed Capital Asset Pricing Model by Sharpe, Lintner, and Black, the Option Pricing Model by Black and Scholes, and other important theories.
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Perennial Midas Lister Bill Gurley is the longest-serving active partner at Benchmark, the famed venture capital firm behind companies like Snapchat, Twitter and Uber, where Gurley sits on the board and led Benchmark's Series A investment in 2011.
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Sequoia Capital is one of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firms, with past investments in Apple, Cisco, Google, and Oracle.
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Kampung Kuantan, a sleepy hollow in Kuala Selangor, 75 km north of the capital, is famed for its firefly "show": thousands of the winged beetles appear each night along the Selangor River, flashing their glowing tails.
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He learned his trade in the New South Wales capital, and later worked in London under famed John Lobb of London, shoemaker to the Royal Family.
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The famed Braulio Carillo National Park, near Costa Rica's capital city, served as a backdrop for Clinton and President Jose Figueres to sign an agreement to share environmental technology.
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The overnight rail link from Egypt's capital city to its southern cultural treasure-troves of Luxor and Aswan was long famed for its exemplary Orient Express-style service.
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As for that famed expertise, it stemmed in part from Lloyd's separation of the underwriting from the provision of capital.
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