In February 2005 a Kam Air Boeing 737 from Herat crashed into mountains 20 miles east of Kabul as it approached in a blizzard, killing all 104 people onboard.
Firsthand's rapid rise and fall made Kam a convert to low-risk investing.
Novoste went public in the early 1990s and made Kam a millionaire.
In the mid-1990s Kam and a partner started a mutual fund called Firsthand Funds.
Kam launched a fund seven years ago based on the picks of the Marketocracy M100, or the 100 best investors on the site.
The beauty of Kam's approach is that when a sector shift occurs--from tech to energy, say--Kam can consult his 70, 000-member database of investors for the new top 100.
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While working as a barber, he befriended a skinny local teen-ager named Wong Kam-ming.
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Yes, I would say that, except for Kam's previous successes as an entrepreneur and a fund manager.
Rick Kam is president and co-founder of ID Experts, a provider of data breach prevention and response solutions.
Before Marketocracy, Kam was the founder and chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, a firm he sold right before the 2000-2002 bear market.
"Ariana is a government airline, and that is one reason it didn't want Kam Air to take off, " admits Amin Farhang, the minister of commerce and industries.
Here are a few recent comments from Randy on MasterCard that were sent to me by Ken Kam, founder of Marketocracy.
Kam Air sponsors teams in volleyball, football, cricket and buzkashi (literally, goat grabbing), a national sport akin to polo.
Democratic consultant Kam Kuwata, who ran Ms. Feinstein's Senate campaigns, said she hadn't made a decision about entering the race.
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