I sold about $200 in Bitcoin I mined back in the early days, like 2009 and 10. Missed out on over $80 million.

Had the ability to buy in on Google right after they went public - passed on it

Had the ability to buy in on Apple in the mid 1990s -passed

Had the ability to buy bitcoin at $5 a coin, could have put in $5k at the time -passed

Had the ability to buy in on Amazon shortly after they went public -passed

Ebay -passed

Starting to see a trend?

My great uncle was a nice dude fucked up from war. It made he introverted and he turned to trucking and the road to make ends meet. It was basically all he ended up doing. He never married or had kids, and stacked up all this cash. Before he died, he had put 1 million in cash in a suitcase, put it in the trunk of a car, and gave it to my grandparents. They couldn’t get the trunk open, didn’t investigate, sold the car.

Didn’t get “rich” per se, but I got in on dogecoin when it was at a penny, missed the peak, and ended up selling in the 30 cent range. I also picked up a ton of oil stocks in March 2020 when it bottomed out that I later sold for more than 15x their original value.

The irony is that I invested in dogecoin because Robbing Hood locked down investments into Gamestop. I didn’t realize that would be such a lucky development at the time.

Those investments paid off my student loans and got me a down payment on a condo. I still have five-figures in my investment account that I’m growing into early retirement. My current focus is gambling stocks, in large part because every election year it seems like there’s a smattering of states legalizing online sports betting. (MO and NE have it on the ballot for this year.)

Not fuck you money or ‘rich’, but life-changing.

One parent had a growing business when I was super young, they brought home well into the 6 figures. However two things happened 1: the internet started getting bigger so that started to hurt their business and 2: the 2008 housing crash happened and for a business that worked with banks on mortgages (I was too young to fully understand what the business did) it was fatal. Then we were dirt poor! The family never really recovered but after many years we did manage to get on our feet, then a parent died and shit went down hill again lmao.

I could’ve grown up a rich kid, instead I grew up with a family oats pot for meals. Though I’m probably a healthier grounded human for it.

I was big into crypto at the very beginning. Lost a hard drive that now has about $8 million on it somewhere.

I don’t know about rich, but my household would be much more well off had my biological mother not been a mentally unstable gold-digging asshole.

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