Scotland’s Unicorn Hunter
How an old-school money manager became one of the world's most important tech investors
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Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., doesn’t spend much time schmoozing with investors. He takes just a handful of meetings with the fund managers who own Amazon’s shares each year. And when he comes to the U.K., there’s just one investor he regularly meets with: Baillie Gifford.
Baillie who? The 109-year old asset management firm, which manages 159 billion pounds and is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, isn’t exactly a household name, even in the U.K.