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1. cbm-vic-20 · 1790341487 · 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 · 1790343239 · 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.

      1. supermatt · 1790344658 · focus · HN ↗

         More like 2 years of your £10 a week paper round for that £10m return.

         1. jonplackett · 1790377648 · 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.

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