Ending the Cycle

Brian Olson’s mission to untangle poverty and failure.

A “poverty trap” is how Brian Olson describes the often harsh relationship between money and education in the U.S. “In our cities the best determinant of how a kid is going to do in school is the color of his skin and the income of his family,” says Olson, a co-founder of Viking Global Investors.

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