Over the past couple of years, one of the hottest trends in the hedge fund world has been private equity.
Hedge funds have invested billions of dollars in private companies and early stage tech start-ups, hoping to improve overall returns and replicate the success of firms such as Tiger Global, which has generated an outstanding performance from investing in private businesses over the past couple of decades (although this track record is now starting to change).
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Dan Sundheiem’s D1 Capital Partners took this trend even further by using borrowed money from JP Morgan Chase to accelerate its bets on early-stage companies.
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