Dear Kite: With 2300% up­side, we blazed an amaz­ing trail

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With the $12 bil­lion Kite buy­out now signed, sealed and de­liv­ered, CEO Arie Bellde­grun has penned a thank-you note to every­one who helped along the way.

Here it is, in its en­tire­ty.

To My Kite Fam­i­ly –

For all of us, the Kite ex­pe­ri­ence has been more than just an in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ty or a step­ping stone in a pro­fes­sion­al ca­reer. Over the past eight years, Kite has be­come an in­te­gral part of our lives and a foun­da­tion from which hope be­came more than just an as­pi­ra­tion.

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