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Billions to Bust - and Beyond (New and Updated Edition): How I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way

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Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled adventure capitalist who became Iceland's first by his 40th birthday he had assets of around $4 billion. Among them was investment in Iceland's oldest bank, Landsbanki - but in the 2008 financial meltdown, Landsbanki crashed, taking Bjorgolfsson with it. He lost nearly everything, yet amazingly by 2014 had made good his losses, repaid his creditors and rebuilt his empire. This new and extensively revised edition brings the buccaneering story of his extraordinary and ambitious achievements fully up to date.

288 pages, Paperback

Published March 3, 2026

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March 1, 2026
Virkilega áhugaverð og fræðandi bók. Ekki oft sem maður fær heildræna innsýn inn í viðskiptaferil jafn umsvifamikils viðskiptamanns eins og Björgólfur er.

Bókin byrjar mjög skemmtilega þar sem hann fer yfir sín fyrstu skref í austur evrópu. Við tekur svo allt sem góðærisárin höfðu upp á að bjóða með tilheyrandi kúvendingu.

Ég hafði mjög gaman af öllum fjárfestinga sögunum og hefði viljað meiri og nánari greiningu frá Björgólfi á mörgum þeirra. Þá fannst mér kreppu kaflarnir einnig fróðlegir þótt þeir séu vissulega umtalsvert þyngri í lestri.

Helsti gallinn við bókina er hinsvegar hversu illa mér fannst hún skrifuð. Fannst ég oft vera að lesa sömu setninguna aftur og aftur og þá á hún líka til að ráfa milli tímabila nánast samhengislaust. Ekki nægilega vel uppbyggð og ritstíllinn dapur.

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