Company · Finance · founded 1987
Gardner Rich & Co.
Institutional brokerage firm Chris Gardner established in Chicago in 1987 with $10,000 of start-up capital. He sold his stake in it in 2006.
Of the 1 person here linked to Gardner Rich & Co., 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Gardner Rich & Co.
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Role
Founder, 1987–2006
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· high confidence. Wikipedia calls what he sold in 2006 a minority (elsewhere 'small') stake, but a Fortune piece from September 2006 says he owned 75% of the firm and a hedge fund the rest. The sources disagree on the size of the stake, so the profile says only that he sold a stake.
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Chris Gardner
Founder, Gardner Rich & Co.
poverty · outsider · no college