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Jun 2022
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18 - Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall St...

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Born into a modest family in the Bronx, Jordan Belfort grew up in Queens dreaming of to become rich. When he was told in dental school that the golden age of the profession was over, he left he leaves the school he was in to go into finance. Indeed, we are at the end of the 80s, when Wall Street was an effervescent jungle...

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