Purchasing Google's IPO, buying a home before the boom,Bitcoin...You name it
5 years ago by wetti · 691 Likes · 5 comments · Popular
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regretfulforeigner
· 5 years ago
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the weed boom was massive and overnight in my state, get on that in your local areas as soon as its legal there, that's my advice
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guest_
· 5 years ago
That’s life. Before that was the dot com boom (and bust.) before that there was the early computer bandwgon. Cell phones, telecom rights (I knew a guy who bid and bought the telecom bandwidths for a huge chunk of the rural south west. 10 years later he sold them for over 100x profit to a nation wide carrier wanting to offer better coverage...) Don’t focus on the opportunities that are gone. If only you’d been there post WW2... if only you’d bought Napa valley for like nothing like the Gamble family did... if only you were there for the invention of film... the printing press... if you can’t find and exploit the next book coming down the future pipe- you likely would have missed those too if you were alive. Keep looking forward. Remember that these “sure things” were mostly very risky when they started, and for every “Google” there are countless people with the same idea who didn’t make it through those early days- so having a horse in the game and seeing a market isn’t enough.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Just as easily as you could have backed a winner like bit coin- you could also have invested in pagers or flying cars or any number of defunct enterprises. Lots of very wealthy and connected people thought Fyre was a good investment too. If they were right their friends would all be saying “I wish I got in on that..” but now their friends are saying “I’m glad I didn’t get in on that...” So while you lament- just remember your chances of losing everything you had are greater than of hitting the “Google Jackpot.” Want to debate it? The next huge thing is taking off right now. Don’t know what- but it’s out there. Go invest everything you have in something and see if it is the next google. I’ll wait for your results.
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bethorien
· 5 years ago
Hey now, don't you go dissing pagers, them things still work just fine.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Lol. Not knocking it. They just aren’t quite the industry leader they once were. I still remember pager code (mostly... the common ones come easier- more complex stuff I have to think on.)
