India, Oct. 16 -- Most of us have probably seen a new startup and wished we were in early. Jay-Z actually did it. The rapper reportedly bought a $2 million stake in Uber in 2013, according to a June 2019 Forbes report by Zack O'Malley Greenburg. The magazine estimated that the stake was worth about $70 million when the company went public in 2019, roughly 35 times the reported purchase price.

In 2013, Uber was growing, and Jay-Z put $2 million in it. He later reportedly tried to buy more shares, but Travis Kalanick, Uber's co-founder and then-CEO, turned him down. The same report put his cash and investments at about $220 million, including the $70 million Uber stake, and his net worth at around $1 billion. It also called him the first h...