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Taino "Tai" Lopez, Alexander Mehr, Maya Burkenroad
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- Company / entity
- Retail Ecommerce Ventures LLC (RadioShack, Pier 1 Imports, Dress Barn, Stein Mart)
- Industry
- Revived retail brands (equity/notes in REV portfolio companies)
- How investors were recruited
- Hundreds of his own social-media followers - influencer/parasocial-trust affinity, built on Lopez's "Here in my garage" internet-fame persona
- Pitch & red flags
- said Dress Barn and Stein Mart were "on fire" with "strong" cash flow; promised returns paid from new investors' money
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