Empire Builders · EB-019
He Was Twenty-Four When He Took Navigator Systems Public In 1995. Everyone Has Asked About That Day. Nobody Has Asked About The Night Before.
On the eve of August 8, 1995, Daniel Chen was twenty-four years old and on the brink of taking Navigator Systems public at a staggering valuation of $2.1 billion. Despite the company showing no profits, he opened the floodgates to the dot-com boom the next day. Nobody has asked about the night before.
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