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A $164M TRAINWRECK CALLED GENIUS FUND

By Donny Alexander
08/07/2020 06:44 PM GMT-0700
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Ari Stiegler and Gabriel Borden were Venice guys in their 20s, connected to millions and eager to implement a model based on MedMen and Caliva. Then their Russian investor turned up dead. Within two years their Genius Fund ended up exactly like MedMen, humiliated and down many millions in Culver City. dot.LA  

  • Genius Fund was known as a private equity company, but actually behaved like a family office for their high-wealth investor in the Moscow suburbs, "or a conglomerate that rolled . . .

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