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The Alfa-bank trio. From left to right: Alex Knaster, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven. Source: PhotoXpress

In Alex Knaster’s London office in Park Lane there’s a letter he bought at a Christie’s auction in 2007 for $157,326: a letter Ernest Hemmingway sent to his friend poet Ezra Pound in 1925 upon arrival to Spanish Pamplona. After that Hemingway embarked on The Sun Also Rises which celebrated the ancient town.
For more than 800 years on July 6, at midday sharp, the famous running of the bulls has been opening the San-Fermin fiesta where people risk their lives running along the streets with a herd of furious bulls raced to the corrida venue.
Knaster first attended Pamplona’s San-Fermin festival right after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1985 and has been back some 6-7 times since then."

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