Vibrant capitalism and Silicon Valley: The secret sauce of US equities

What sets companies on both sides of the Atlantic apart?

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In 1962, a young Stanford graduate and former middle-distance runner named Phil Knight sold his car and bought a ticket to Japan, at the time a leading supplier of sprinting shoes.

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