An IPO (Initial Public Offering) is when a private company sells its shares to the public for the first time on a stock exchange. It’s basically how a company goes from being privately owned to publicly traded.

🇶🇦Qatar: $1,000,000 – Tax: 0%
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia: $1,000,000 – Tax: 0%
🇦🇪UAE: $1,000,000 – Tax: 0%

🇭🇰Hong Kong: $846,000 – Tax: 15.4%
🇸🇬Singapore: $792,000 – Tax: 20.8%
🇲🇽Mexico: $657,000 – Tax: 34%
🇺🇸Texas (U.S.): $646,000 – Tax: 35.4%
🇹🇷Turkey: $595,500 – Tax: 40.45%
🇩🇪Germany: $531,000 – Tax: 46.9%
🇺🇸California (U.S.): $530,000 – Tax: 47%
🇸🇪Sweden: $489,000 – Tax: 51.1%
🇫🇷France: $456,000 – Tax: 54.4%
🇩🇰Denmark: $450,000 – Tax: 55%
🇯🇵Tokyo (Japan): $441,000 – Tax: 55.9%

🔥Total trading volume reached $34 trillion in 2025, with average daily volume up 18%.
🔥The Web3 product Alpha 2.0 recorded over $1 trillion in turnover and attracted 17 million users.
🔥The platform prevented potential user losses of $6.7 billion.
🔥Verified reserves stand at $162.8 billion.
🔥Fiat and P2P operations grew 38% year‑on‑year, while Binance Pay expanded to more than 20 million merchants.
🔥Institutional trading volume rose 21%, and OTC‑fiat activity surged 210%.

👉This marks the 10th largest liquidation in crypto history.

🖱 After Nvidia’s IPO in 1999, he sold part of his shares to buy his parents a Mercedes S Class S600 with a 6 liter V12. The car cost about $135,000. Nvidia was valued at $300 million and the stock traded at $12.

🖱 The sale involved 11,250 shares. Since then, Nvidia has completed 7 stock splits. Those shares would now equal about 5.4 million shares.

🖱 At a current price near $187, that stake would be worth over $1 billion. For scale, the Rolls Royce Droptail costs about $32 million and only 4 exist.

Huang joked that it was the most expensive car in the world.
His parents still own it.

His remaining Nvidia stake is now valued at roughly $123 billion.

Ismail built early internet projects in parallel. He released Orenscript as a teenager, shipped popular mIRC tools, launched a local social network, founded 1337 Tech, and became an early Bitcoin user with marketplace experiments.

Over time, AI.com became one of the rarest domains online. Two letters tied to the most valuable tech narrative. By 2023, it was redirecting between giants like ChatGPT and xAI, watched as a digital trophy.

In 2026, the sale closed. Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek bought AI.com for $70,000,000, paid fully in crypto. The deal was brokered by Larry Fischer.

That’s basically the price of a TV for a $250M crime.

That’s why Buffett doesn’t consider them true investments, but rather speculative assets.