• Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Me looking back at 20yr old me who sold stock for the company I worked for 5 weeks before we were bought out by a large teleco company for $4 a share. When hired I was granted 200k options at .14c each and sold for .30 each. Bought a house with that downpayment, could have bought 4 with the 800k… or just invested with 11% returns for 25 years (-50% for divorce)…

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      Don’t feel too bad buddy. You could have been me, who sold 74 BTC for $35 each to recoup mining costs back in 2013. At least I got a free graphics card for all my troubles after all was said and done.

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        We don’t talk about BTC… cough cough over 1000 and went, “well that’s boring” and deleted the wallet. Wasn’t even worth a pizza but looked cool and I had extra compute at the office that was just doing SETI work.

        But I would have sold that shit too the moment it hit $1.