The syndicated column Weird News highlights the success of one Jon Jacobs. You might remember Jacobs as the man that invested a ridiculous sum of money into Mindark's virtual world Planet Calypso in 2005. Some people thought he was crazy, but it turns out he was crazy like a fox. Jacobs turned that $100,000 investment virtual real estate into $635,000 real US dollars.

Besides making a killing on virtual real estate Jacobs is now in charge of a new virtual world built using MindArk's technology and its banking system - which Switzerland has legitimized as a real bank - backed by Loeb Partners, former Merrill Lynch media analyst Hal Vogel, Katlean de Monchy, Jon Jacobs and an unnamed banker from Citi. [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/12/11/success-jon-jacobs][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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