Cousin told me to invest heavily in Monster Energy Drinks in 2003 at ~$0.09/share. It's at $104 today

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Feb 1, 2023
3:18:25pm

slappy All-American

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slappy

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What is your best "missed opportunity" story? Mine:

Pollster QB2

2/1/23 2:56pm

i could have kept my money instead of putting it in a roth IRA last year.

buckeyecougarguy

2/1/23 3:00pm

RE: i could have kept my money instead of putting it in a roth IRA last year.

CosmoTheRaider

2/2/23 12:06pm

The high school football coach asked if I would play football.

mobomanjoe

2/1/23 3:00pm

RE: The high school football coach asked if I would play football.

demon_llama

2/1/23 3:09pm

I had a chance to date Marisa Tomei. She had a thing for short, quirky, bald men

m0resn0w

2/1/23 3:01pm

RE: I had a chance to date Marisa Tomei. She had a thing for short, quirky, bald men

Pollster

2/1/23 3:07pm

Guy in my ward had a cleaning business

Hammer15

2/2/23 10:09am

I owned a home that I sold when I moved 8 years ago I didn't have to sell but did and it's worth $400k more today.

RdF3

2/1/23 3:02pm

Had the opportunity to join a start up

BYU71

2/1/23 3:03pm

My dad was the HP group leader for Ray Noorda and Drew Major in Orem.

jacobugath

2/1/23 3:11pm

Sold two houses (7 years and 4 years ago) would be ~$500k in equity today, could

BYUFootballisBack

2/1/23 3:14pm

I owned 8K of Amazon stock when the market cap was 2.5B

ReiUrso

2/1/23 3:17pm

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Iman23

2/1/23 3:17pm

Cousin told me to invest heavily in Monster Energy Drinks in 2003 at ~$0.09/share. It's at $104 today

slappy

2/1/23 3:18pm

And I just checked - it's the best performing stock over the last 20 years. Drat

slappy

2/1/23 3:25pm

Is your cousin loaded? Did he follow his own advice?

ReiUrso

2/1/23 3:33pm

He does quite well, but not sure how much he made off Monster. I think he sold most of it in 2015.

slappy

2/1/23 3:36pm

Grandfather was comp of James L Sorenson. A few years post mission he asked my Grandpa if he wanted to start a company

Probable Sacko

2/1/23 3:23pm

I turned down a job offer

LaVellEdwardsStadium

2/1/23 3:29pm

Offered 250 BTC for $1k. Would have been ~$17 mil at atm.

panacablue

2/1/23 3:35pm

In 2012 my nephew cashed out 6 bitcoins for $30 to buy pizza while in college.

Pollster

2/1/23 3:43pm

Made $0 on the $150M sale of a company I started because our legal agreement

RUNBYU1

2/1/23 3:37pm

That's horrible. I can't imagine screwing over someone like that.

jacobugath

2/1/23 4:00pm

Good question. As a startup, none of even took a salary over $90k that first 7

RUNBYU1

2/1/23 4:08pm

RE: What is your best "missed opportunity" story? Mine:

flatliner

2/1/23 3:38pm

I learned of a new P2P technology called “Bitcoin” where people could earn a digital currency by running a program in

cheezedawg

2/1/23 3:41pm

My boss was big time into that early on. Wanted to pay our bonuses out in

VACOUGFAN

2/1/23 8:09pm

I had the opportunity to invest in Wikipedia very early and I did

bruincoug

2/1/23 3:43pm

Tax-deductible donation, at least.

mobomanjoe

2/1/23 3:45pm

Not me, but a client. For $1500 was offered a % of startup called

hitechcpa

2/1/23 4:02pm

Andy Reed and I could have been family.........

Los33

2/1/23 4:15pm

My Grandpa turned down a bunch of land in las vegas for free. Only had to pay

vegasnative

2/1/23 4:19pm

My dad could have owned a big chunk of land in deer valley for very cheap. Also

Bluedarts

2/1/23 5:00pm

Small potato story, but I was only 17

BlueInfidel

2/2/23 6:37am

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