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Back when I started investing in the 1990s the radio talk show that I learned about investing from advocated for S&P 500 index mutual funds (ETFs hadn't been introduced yet) just as people advocate for S&P 500 index ETFs today. All of my investing money was in a 401(k) plan and there was no option for investing in individual stocks so I invested in an S&P 500 index fund as the best choice available.
I was very interested in personal computers back in the 1990s, and I saw how people who had invested in Microsoft in the late 1980s and early 1990s had made a lot of money, but I thought I was too late and had missed the boat on Microsoft. Which was pretty stupid because in the 1990s after adjusting for splits Microsoft was selling for around $3 per share relative to today's price which is $483 per share, so I wasn't "too late" to get on the Microsoft train in the 1990s, and if I had just bought MSFT I would have made 100s of times my money by now, but instead I wasted time looking for "the next Microsoft", which I thought would be companies developing the Linux operating system, but that was a dead end in terms of investing. I should have just bought MSFT.
As I said I was interested in personal computers so I was following the struggles of Apple Computers in the mid 1990s, and "the death of Apple". Everyone thought Apple was going to be acquired by Sun Microsystems but then Steve Jobs came back to Apple and brought it back from its deathbed. I should have bought AAPL back in the 1990s when it was selling for $0.30 a share (adjusted for splits) and again I would have made 100s of times my money by now, but I was too stupid to do that, even though I was an admirer of the company.
Around that time I read *One Up On Wall Street* by Peter Lynch, which I highly recommend. Lynch is the former manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund and is one of the most successful stock pickers of all time. Lynch strongly believes that individual investors have advantages over the professionals and can beat the pros at their own game. The ideas in that book stuck with me.
Then in the 2000s I was active in an online forum and some of us decided to have a paper stock trading game to see who could make the most money with virtual portfolios. I remember the stock of this company - Google - was performing really well in my paper trading, but again I was too stupid to see what was right in front of me. I should have bought GOOGL stock back in the 2000s and I would have made lots of money.
So you can see by sheer stupidity I missed making tons of money on MSFT, AAPL, and GOOGL, even though I was very aware of those companies. So around 2017 I had all this money from selling my S&P 500 index fund shares so I started buying individual stocks, including MSFT and AAPL which I still own. Better late than never.
But one of the things Peter Lynch teaches in *One Up On Wall Street* is to look around in your daily life for companies whose products and services you use, and that are popular with people around you, for ideas of companies to research and maybe invest in. As I said, I was interested in computers in the 1990s and 2000s, and I would build computers for gaming. Even back in the 2000s I always used NVIDIA graphics cards because I thought they were the best, so I was aware of NVIDIA and admired their products.
I remember in the mid-2010s I wanted to upgrade the graphics card in my son's computer, so of course I wanted to use a NVIDIA graphics card. But when I tried to buy one every store was out of stock, and the NVIDIA graphics cards were hard to get and expensive. I later found out that NVIDIA graphics cards were being snapped up to be used to make machines to "mine" something called Bitcoin, whatever that was. Again, another missed opportunity.
But when I started investing in individual stocks in 2017 I decided one of the companies I would invest in would be a company I knew and whose products I thought were great and were apparently in high demand: NVIDIA. Then around 2019 or 2020 I read some articles that NVIDIA was a leader in something called "artificial intelligence", and "AI" could be the next big thing, so I bought more NVDA stock.
Well, for once I wasn't too late. The $5,600 I invested in NVDA is currently worth $219,804.
I'm still using what I learned in *One Up On Wall Street* today. A few years ago I noticed as I drove to work every day, and any time I drove around, there would always be cars lined up at Dutch Bros coffee kiosks. Day or night, there was always a line of cars. I noticed that Dutch Bros seemed to be busier than Starbucks. Hmmm. I looked into Dutch Bros and found out they were growing with a lot of room to grow across the country. So when Dutch Bros announced in 2021 the were going to become a publicly traded company I jumped in and bought BROS stock on the first day of the IPO (Initial Public Offering). Whenever the stock dropped below $30 I bought more BROS shares.
The $5,610 I invested in BROS beginning in 2021 is currently worth $11,686, up +108%. So not bad in 4 years and I think there is still a lot of upside for BROS.

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