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Meet the self-made billionaire who bought a nearly bankrupt company off Warren Buffett for $1,000 and turned it into a $85 billion giant

Meet the self-made billionaire who bought a nearly bankrupt company off Warren Buffett for $1,000 and turned it into a $85 billion giantWorldPing

Jeffrey Sprecher, the founder and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, bought the near-bankrupt company from Warren Buffett. He’s now worth $1.2 billion.

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