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Jordan Ross Belfort is an American former stockbroker and businessman who pleaded guilty in 1999 to fraud and related crimes tied to stock-market manipulation and a boiler-room penny-stock scam.

IndustryIntegrated business/investment
ClusterlU-bh2xPl4Y
Maximum number for self-presentation$23M
Jordan Belfort
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$23MMaximum self-reported (unverified)
1It's the original proposition.
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Chapter I

Personal file.

Jordan Ross Belfort is an American former stockbroker and businessman who pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock-market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny-stock scam in 1999. Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which, becoming an informant for the FBI and wearing a covert listening device ("wire"), he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. He published the memoir The Wolf of Wall Street in 2007, which was adapted into Martin Scorsese's film of the same name released in 2013, in which he was played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

ItemContents
NameJordan Belfort
IndustryIntegrated business/investment
Channel Original[lU-bh2xPl4Y] Asking Miami Billionaires How They Got Rich!
Maximum number for self-presentation$23M
External identity informationAmerican stockbroker (born 1962)
WikipediaJordan Belfort
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Chapter II

His mindset and hit.

He's not collecting the money he earned.

The beginning of his story.

  • Self-declared young to set up a voucher company and earn a lot of money (`story is open'), with a single cash income of up to $23 million (IPO, a few minutes).
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Chapter III

External information (Wikipedia with links)

The following is from the Wikipedia entry (other than his own), which is used to supplement the personal background outside the channel.

External records

  • Jordan Ross Belfort is an American former stockbroker and businessman who pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock-market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny-stock scam in 1999.
  • Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which, becoming an informant for the FBI and wearing a covert listening device ("wire"), he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme.
  • He published the memoir The Wolf of Wall Street in 2007, which was adapted into Martin Scorsese's film of the same name released in 2013, in which he was played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
ItemContents
Wikipedia EntryJordan Belfort
One word.American stockbroker (born 1962)
WikidataQ3183674
Birth/Qualitative, etc.This page is not taken word for word. See Wikipedia Original
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Chapter IV

The macro environment at the time

By the year he mentioned in the film (start year 2013):

YearMacrofactsSource
2019Federal funds 1.55% Unemployment 3.5% (lowest 50 years)Source
2020Federal funds effective interest rate 0.05% (April) Personal savings rate 31.8% (historical) new U.S. 5.4 million businessesSource
2021Federal funds effective interest rate 0.08 % United States digital advertising revenue $189B (+35%) YouTube Shorts US online + $100M Shorts FundSource
2022Effective interest rate of federal funds: 4.10% (December, +4 percentage points in year) CPI-to-June peak 9.0% Savings rate dropped to 4.2%Source
2023Federal funds 5.12% (July peak) United States digital advertising rate down to +7.3% (tenth anniversary low)Source
2024Federal funds 5.13% to 4.48% (first interest rate decrease in September) U.S. digital advertising revenue 258.6B (+14.9%) I'm not sure.Source
2025U.S. digital advertising close to $300B (+13.9%) Creator advertising expenditure $37B (+26%)Source
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Chapter V

Industry structure: integrated business / investment

FactsFigures/conclusionsSource
Income structureMulti-business (operating + investment + content) companies, valuations are often priced separately for individual segmentsSource
Macro SensitivityIncrease in cost of funds, compressing M & As and valuation multiples in interest rates: 2022-12 Federal funds 4.10%, 2023-07 5.12%Source
United States Entrepreneurship EnvironmentIn 2021, the United States added 5.4 million new businesses (Census calibre, the highest ever).Source
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Chapter VI

Original Source

  • [lU-bh2xPl4Y] Making Miami Billionaires How They Got Rich!
  • Wikipedia · Jordan Belfort