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The boy who burst the 'unicorn' bubble

WeWork's implosion will one day be seen as the end of the current private company bubble and its founder is soon going to be a piñata at parties.

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Remember Martin Shkreli?

Sure you do! He's in prison now, but back in 2015, not long after becoming the chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals, the 32-year-old Shkreli jacked up the price of an important HIV drug, Daraprim, by more than 5,000 per cent.

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Joe Nocera is a Bloomberg columnist and former editorial director of Fortune.
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