{"id":239746,"date":"2026-10-15T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=239746"},"modified":"2026-10-15T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:30:42","slug":"he-bought-a-nearly-bankrupt-company-from-warren-buffett-for-1000-and-turned-it-into-a-98-billion-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=239746","title":{"rendered":"He Bought a Nearly Bankrupt Company From Warren Buffett for $1,000 and Turned It Into a $98 Billion Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997, Intercontinental Exchange founder and CEO Jeffrey Sprecher bought the near-bankrupt Continental Power Exchange from Warren Buffett\u2019s utility, MidAmerican Energy, for $1,000 and assumed its debt. ICE was founded in 2000 and later bought NYSE Euronext in 2013, making it the owner of the New York Stock Exchange; as of January 2026, ICE\u2019s market [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997, Intercontinental Exchange founder and CEO Jeffrey Sprecher bought the near-bankrupt Continental Power Exchange from Warren Buffett\u2019s utility, MidAmerican Energy, for $1,000 and assumed its debt. ICE was founded in 2000 and later bought NYSE Euronext in 2013, making it the owner of the New York Stock Exchange; as of January 2026, ICE\u2019s market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":239747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/239747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}