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  1. cbm-vic-20 · · focus · HN ↗
    I had a fair amount of shares of TDFX back in the day, rode it all the way to their bankruptcy. NVDA bought the scraps and left retail shareholders like me with nothing. In a different reality, if 3dfx could have survived to the AI-era...
    1. jonplackett · · focus · HN ↗
      I wanted a 3DFX card so bad when I was 10yo.

      And then I wanted a GeForce so bad. But I only got £10 a week from my paper round.

      If I’d invested just one week of my paper round in Nvidia shares though, it would be worth over £10 million today.

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      2. supermatt · · focus · HN ↗
        More like 2 years of your £10 a week paper round for that £10m return.
        1. HPsquared · · focus · HN ↗
          And also never sold any of it between then and now.
        2. jonplackett · · focus · HN ↗
          Their stock was $12 on debut but they’ve had many many stock splits since then. So the equivalent price of a share is less than a dollar. And it went to the equivalent of 7 cents when the bubble burst.
      3. Aurornis · · focus · HN ↗
        When I was a kid I told my parents I wanted to invest some of my money in NVDA after we had a school assignment to study a company. They laughed and gave me a speech about stock picking. What they said was actually good advice, but looking back it would have been a home run.

        At the time stock trades were still expensive. I remember one of the obstacles was thinking that of the small amount of birthday money I had saved up, $20 was going to go into the purchase and another $20 would have to come out of the sale. Then they explained taxes to me.

        None of it would have mattered if I had been able to buy and hold, but at the time I remember being sad that even doubling my money would result in $40 of fees plus taxes, eating most of the gains.

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