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Jordan Belfort: Plot Summary
Jordan Belfort was a major CEO of a business he started named Stratton Oakmont. He started out as a pretty poor person, not really poor but not wealthy. But that changed after a while, he became very very rich. He started Stratton Oakmont as a penny stock which means the investors get like 1$ back, this meant that Jordan Belfort made A LOT of money off this. He is an author, motivational speaker, and former stock broker. He ended up writing a book about what he did and how everything played out. From before he was a stockbroker until he went to prison. Very early in his career he sold seafood and meat. He is a very persuasive person which led him to being a rich stockbroker. He sold around 5,000 pounds of fish a week. But this business failed

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