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Sarah Glodek

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says his father taught him to invest with a 'brutally hard' childhood game

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Like legendary investor Warren Buffett, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s finance career started in childhood. But in an unusually hands-on fashion, Dimon spent hours playing investment simulation games with his father.

“He would give me an industry you might know something about, like a restaurant,” Dimon said on a recent episode of The Master Investor Podcast with Wilfred Frost. “And say, ‘Okay, look at this. Look at the history. Read the annual report. Study the industry if you want. What would you pay for the stock?”

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