FRC
First Republic Bank
stock NYSE

> Is there any kind of checklist that has served you well?
I'm 90% index funds but with the other 10%, I buy companies that I know and like and think will do well long-term. This has worked well for me but I also work and most of my individual stocks are tech, and that whole sector has done well. I bought AMZN when I first realized it was easier to get things like toilet paper delivered to my apartment in SF than carry it home 6 blocks from the store. I think that was 2010. I bought GOOG at the same time. I bought TSLA in 2017 when I started seeing them everywhere in SF and a coworker told me he loved his. I bought Bitcoin in early 2017 after being asked to give a tech talk on it at my company. I bought AMD in 2018 when building a PC for a golf simulator.
Those are my best performers but you get the point. I absolutely loved FRC bank and bought stock in them so it doesn't always work out well.

FRC, got 15% off as an employee. When the FDIC took over my 32k in stock went down to 178 bucks.