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How Three Brothers Made Billions by Shamelessly Copying Ideas

And it worked every time

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May 19, 2025
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By Heisenberg Media from Vienna, Austria — Oliver Samwer — NOAH Conference — London 2013 — Dan Taylor — Heisenberg Media-14, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30487439

Some people build rockets. Others build empires. These guys?

They built clones.

Back in 1999, three German brothers, Marc, Oliver, and Alexander Samwer, looked at eB…

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