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Mnuchin Chases Wall Street Glory With His War Chest of Foreign Money

Trump’s former Treasury secretary is going where few seasoned investors can — and where some wouldn’t.

Steven Mnuchin 

Photographer: Evan Vucci/AP Photo
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The head of a hot cybersecurity startup had good news to share as he walked into his chairman’s office: They had just landed a new investor named Liberty.

The chairman racked his brain. Liberty? Why would John Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. — an entertainment empire — be interested, he asked, according to a person who witnessed the exchange two years ago.