“It was just a lucky punt,” says Steve Lofty of the BrewDog shares he bought back in 2011. That was when the Scottish craft brewer raised GBP2.2m (US$2.8m) in a second phase of crowdfunding. “I’d just got a bonus from work and it seemed like a fun company.”

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