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The chairman's very excited now he's up to speed on the next big thing

'Nice new place you've got here,' I said to the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as I surveyed his plush new office and the huge desk that dominated the room. 'Oh it's not much,' he shrugged modestly. 'But I like to call it home. Still, enough of this small talk, what do you think of our latest little project?' 'Would that be your focused fund, your venture capital split cap fund or your Early 70s Nostalgia fund?' I asked from my seat on the other side of the desk. The distance from the chairman was such I wondered if I should have shouted ' but ap...

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