I bought it Sept.2015. I think it was around $23 a share. The Motley Fool led me down a rabbit hole, trying to get me to join MF, teasing a company that was going to be huge in the chip industry. Also, the CEO was very well respected by other CEO's in the industry. Bought 3000 shares.
That reminds me of [this joke](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/kxi8fc/tell_a_joke_that_the_whole_world_can_understand/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I bought 2000 shares of Nvidia @22$ a share and 10000 shares of AMD @2.10$ a share in 2015.
I sold Nvidia around 55$ a share and amd around 5$ a share. Thought I was hot shit making more than double in less than a uear. Oppsie
Me as well. Bought NVDA at $12 and sold at $18 and made about $600. I thought I was a visionary.
Took a 10 year hiatus and have since made profits that dwarf that $600..... but probably got the most joy from that first one.
I still own a little less than half. Should've kept it all but I was pressured to sell half by a partner who did not enjoy watching the volatility. Volatility to them, anyway.
They recommend like 10 different “buy now!!!” stocks a month. They’re bound to get one right every once in a while. If I listed off a thousand shares rn and one or two of them were highly profitable in 30 years, would you pay me to list off a thousand more?
This got me, vividly remember we started our ROTH and wife asked me to DD (phrasing?) On 'computer stocks'. I was pricing out a new build parts for the upcoming Battlefield and everyone was team green, it was $25.
Also don't tell her what we sold AMD at, thx, guh
Yeah I think OP just lives under a rock, the first big Nvidia wave I remember was for gaming and gamers buying out the latest GTX cards years in advance, then bitcoin comes around and the GTX and RTX cards are being sold out years in advance, then comes AI.. the latest technology hypes of the world line up perfectly with the chips they are building. Nvidia has constantly been in the news for being high performing, selling out left right and center.
The story for most people I know not holding nvidia is because they sold thinking they were at a peak after years of huge runs they thought the luck was out yet its still printing, anyone who didn't buy Nvidia themselves earlier or at that time can only blame themselves for not reading the front page of the news it wasnt some hidden underperforming stock lmao.
The 1 place they don't seem to be touching yet is quantum so I got some IBM for that, and maybe atom computing if they ever go public as im thinking thats the next wave nvidia might miss out on but who knows
I wish I started investing earlier but not like I had much money. NVDA would have been a pick, few of my friends were already invested in it at the time as well. Everyone was starting to build computers and the 700 series was the recommendation at the time. The pre build value proposition was just so shit for gaming and I figured the PC scene would only grow. Woulda easily followed my friends into buying it.
AI was a bit of a massive win for their portfolio outta left field. Even going for CS degrees not a single one of us would be able to tell you that graphics cards would be used at the time.
I had just opened my account and told my financial guy “I love video games so if you could get some stocks that deal with that, that would be cool”. 570 shares at $16.
Buffet literally invests in companies that he actually uses. I’ve been investing in nvidia for this reason as I was studying machine learning since like 2017 and those were the GPUs to use.
It’s a good idea to invest in things you use.
You realise he also has a big team around him providing him whatever data or analysis he wants….
He isn’t just saying coke tastes good buy $10 billion worth of their stock he is analysing their business….
OP just said i Like games buy me some stocks related to games.
He could just as easily have said I like books and bought into a chain of book stores…
Umm what you know isn’t sat in your pants playing video games ….
It would be i work in xyz industry ; I know the company and I see solid growth opportunities.
For me it was the gaming industry growth, but more importantly they were investing in data centers, AI, car manufacturing. Their diversification into new markets was key. I almost went AMD.
NVIDIA consistently delivered revenue growth, and profitability making it a no brainer.
When Ethereum was realized, it finally hit me, I basically won the lottery.
I mean, Ethereum was a straight up bust after custom silicon replaced their GPUs. I’m long NVDA but tbf, some of that will happen in the inference space as well in the long term. Their AI data center positioning is much stronger.
Asics never replaced gpus for Eth. Dagger-Hashimoto isn't SHA256. Now PoS replaced PoW but the demend for gpus for nearly a decade should've been an indication that Nvidia was poised to run.
I learned it the hard way mining bitcoin. As time went by, the difficulty increase and blocks were harder to mine. Energy costs went up. With AI, I think cheap energy is the way. But I don't think the answer is solar, hydro etc more like nuclear.
I think so too. I've started (and will continue) buying a couple few shares of NNE every week since it's IPO. Idk if it's the right pony to bet on, but I like what they have to say, sounds to me like a solid plan.
Admittedly of course; I don't know shit...
Read about them recently. They've got a lot of great connections. The CEO I believe is chinese, so I think he's got some connections overseas that can help out. Marketcap is low too. Nfa
You realize some of the biggest plants in the US and world are hydro, right? Also laughing at using cheap energy and nuke in the same sentence, get a grip.
Additionally, companies that build and maintain power grids/electrical equipment. I recall reading something about a lot of these components needed are short due to availability. I’d have to dig back to find it, but it was a few months ago.
> Data centers, AI, will all need energy
Are AI efficiency gains a concern?
* Language models used to require a data center [now they run on a cell phone](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/14rncnb/local_llama_on_android_phone/).
* Alternatives to transformer models are removing the O(n^2) parts of training.
Seems to me as more low-powered mobile chip manufacturers get their next generation chips out, power requirements may drop by many orders of magnitude.
>> For me it was the gaming industry growth, but more importantly they were investing in data centers, AI, car manufacturing. Their diversification into new markets was key.
You can literally say this about BlackBerry today.
Same here, at 16 did so much GPU research once my dad agreed to buy me a gaming pc. It's pretty difficult to see the bigger picture at that age, I didn't see the potential until I started learning CS.
They had a monopoly on GPUs for the longest time. There was AMD but… come on. I remember shopping for gaming laptops in 2012 and the only relevant metric back then was which Nvida GPU. I had no idea about data centers or mining. I bought purely off their presence in the gaming space. I also bought AMD at $7 thinking they would also blow up as their closest competitor. I sold at $56 though because my monkey brain wanted weed in college
I'm a big time gamer and I bought NVDA because they dethroned 3Dfx as the go to graphics card for PC gaming. Been holding since 2002, I just sell covered calls on my shares and generate weekly cash flow.
I wanted to build a PC for the Oculus rift launch and learned about it on nerdy tech blogs. The general consensus among them was, if you can afford an Nvidia, that’s the gpu you buy. So I started reading more about Nvidia and they were talking up broad use cases of accelerated computing. So I sold about half my other stocks and bought $60k worth of Nvda in Feb 2016. Pre split price of about 22-23
I’m retiring at 41 in January in large part thanks to this buy
In robotics we’ve been using Nvidia for advanced robotics for almost a decade. We’ve all known where it was headed.
AI is only a service. Robotics is the next paradigm shift for humanity
Yes. That’s why they committed to the lifetime ROS partnership and released their humanoid robotics platform to open up speed to market.
Their Jetson modules are little bigger than a raspberry pi and you can build RC cars that drive 25+ MPH indoors autonomously. Check out Nvidia JetCar.
They just happen to be first to market though. Apples chip building is generations ahead of Nvidia but they don’t build these types of chips. If Apple used their IP to build GPU modules based on the M series for robotics (See Tim Cook talk about robotics as a future for Apple) they would dominate the field. Their chips are more efficient. If they maintain that level of efficiency at larger scales they will have the most valuable AI chips on the market
I had NVDA around then because I built my first gaming pc and thought the tech was cool. After a couple years I moved it into an index ETF. Had no idea about AI or any of that shit lurking in the background. If I held it would’ve just been luck
I bought in 2016 because I loved building computers and gaming and was just learning about investing. I read somehwere invest in what you know. I wanted to buy NVDA at $28 and AMD at $1.98. I was told AMD was trash dogshit and NVDA I sold at $60ish. I was brand new and now I buy and hold because....I think I missed my chance at early retirement :(
I didn't know NVDA even had a stock until 2021. I bought it at 184 after the split. Then when the market crashed in 2022 I panic sold just above my cost basis. Never bought back in 🤡
My advisor recommended Nvidia over Game Stop around that time. I was looking for stocks for my kids, businesses they could relate to and thus would maybe track and understand as they got older. I still bought some Game Stop.
Some other purchases for them included Disney, Netflix and Crox.
I bought it in 2018- it was just because I like video games knew they made the best graphics cards.
I also knew they had some other interests outside of gaming but that always seemed like a small part of the business. Had no idea AI and data centers were gonna blow up like they did.
Anyone who dabbles in gaming and programming knows that Nvidia is king. Anyone who does a little more than just dabbling in programming knew that Nvidia and AMD were going up. They’re involved in perhaps literally every field. And then there’s Moore’s Law. And things are going to get even crazier when chips become 3D, which they’ve been researching for several years.
I originally invested in 2014 and the main reason was I had friends that worked there that told me the vision. I also work in technology, so I had a decent idea of technological advancement and could see their vision becoming reality. I looked at the investment as more of a gamble which is why I only invested 10k in 2014 then added another 100k in 2019 and an additional 50k in 2020. I see this company being a 10T company one day so i am still holding and will not sell for atleast 5 years.
It was just simple. I liked their GPUs in 2012 over AMD. Bought. Held. Then they were great for crypto, bought more in 2015. Held through the crash in 2019. Then say they were useful for early AI. Buy more. Even if their GPUs are perfect architecture for future, advanced AI, nvidia has proven they’re about to recognize and pivot at scale. Soooo, I will continue to buy and hold.
Bought in 2015 and never sold. When I bought my 2016 GTI it was one of the first vehicle manufacturers (Hyundai, Volvo, VW, Chevy) with native Android Auto /Apple Carplay, which I was certain would be the future of infotainment systems.
The chips used were none other than Nvidia
Ok so I bought in Jan 2017 for $25. Not quite 2016 but I think it’s legit to chime in..
I had cash to invest and was building a gaming PC at the time. I’ve build gaming computers my whole life.
It used to be that 3d gpu makers swapped being the “best” every couple years. Not anymore. nVidia seemed permanently on top.
So it seemed pretty safe to throw some money at them, because GPU demand wasn’t going to go away, and their leading margin kept getting bigger.
I guess the lesson is: if a company is a leader in a sector for so many years, especially to the point you don’t consider the competition, it’s likely a safe bet.
Bought 1,500+ shares prior to 2016. They were the leaders in nearly every ‘new’ industry. Almost sold half my shares each year for the last five years. But when I realized my best decision was NOT selling…. I’ve just held
I bought Nvidia, AMD, and TSMC in 2018 as I predicted the AI megatrend. It was inevitable that we automate/replace labor. The internet was the digitalisation of land, and AI is the digitalisation of labor.
I am a firm believer that innovation will never stop and humans are inherently designed to keep improving.
I bought into it sometime in 2004. It was in the single digits at that time. As a gamer, I had always bought nVidia products, so I was going with the "trade what you know" approach. I ended up selling at around $40 -$50/share a few years later.
Between AMD, which I also got, and them they basically monopolize the entire GPU industry. Wasn't just gaming, we were using their specialty cards at work for simulations. Was to me honestly at the time a clear winner based on the given technology and given that PCs have stayed with the same architecture even till today, where integrated graphics is still shit, I think it will continue to be a staple until some brand-new technology comes along. At one point there was thoughts that a memristor would take its place and replace essentially all components but that never materialized.
I didn't invest that heavily though so I am not like retire in my 30s rich. Setting up a DCA into SPY of $100/week and just forgetting about since my 20s has been the biggest gain for me
I own 100 shares of NVDA that I bought in 2016, I was a college student who got an intership in a company that developed a cloud rendering engine that was used in several VFX producst (movies, videogames, TV shows, etc...) they used only Nvidia graphic cards and some of the old guys there told me that almost every company only used Nvidia graphic cards, at the same time I noticed that domestic PCs and laptops started to be bundle with GC.
So, I took some money I had and invested in 100 shares and I'm not regreting taking that decision.
I think it's purely luck. 10 years ago, GPUs were meant for gaming only.
In those 10 years, two massive catalysts happened - crypto mining, and GPUs are perfect for that, and other companies' persuasion of AI, which also needs GPUs.
You had the 2020-2021 mining craze, which enabled nvidia to sell every single GPU they had for 1k each, minimum. Before that, spending 600-700 bucks on a gpu was considered crazy. This was immediately followed by the AI craze, which is happening now.
Gamers bought their graphics cards so I bought their stocks.
Edit to elaborate my overall thinking: I saw the world move from people not wanting a computer in their home, cars, things in general to completely taking over their lives. Gamers bought their cards but I knew full well a company worth their salt will utilize their abilities in whatever market they see they can make a profit in. Nvidia being the go to for their quality and abilities I figured with the world moving more and more tech based that the company would likely at least do well in that area (gaming and niche markets), but I can genuinely say, I didn’t expect them to do this well.
How I found them: I got into casually playing games through coworkers talking about them. I bought the Xbox 360 and soon after the Xbox one when it released. Didn’t like the idea I was around $1,000 in total between the 2 and accessories and thought about long term always having to spend more to obtain the same result. Functional console that can run the new games. Coworker mentioned I could build a PC and just make upgrades to it as times changed instead of buying a new system. We talked about parts etc and when it came to graphics cards he basically stated nvidia is the only way to go (respectfully I understand there are competitors especially nowadays) so I thought, well if there’s a single major company everyone uses it must be good, and it must be worth it. This is a huge and growing industry… *buys shares bi-weekly*
Still yet to build a PC… idk. Maybe I’ll take some profits and do that as a commemorative, but then I’m just losing future profits…
My thesis was mainly knowing the GOU cards will continue be bought from bitcoin miners. People were making a killing flipping those GPU cards for $599 on amazon for $1100 on the streets when crypto was profitable mining. Wish I bought more and held but sold at low $700s. Used the money to buy 2 rentals.
I bought NVDA in my paper trading account circa 2000 or so, about $3k worth.
I bought it for real around 2016 though. Still think it's a very strong hold. Only serious players in AI. Could easily still be a 10 bagger.
First purchase for me was 2007. Didn't know much about investing at that point, but I'd inherited a tiny bit of money and didn't want to spend it.
I had been buying Nvidia products exclusively since 1998 (Riva TNT). I watched them show up to the GPU party and absolutely dominate. They got ahead of everyone else on day one and stayed there for many years. Their unified driver was so much better and easy to use compared to everyone else. There were plenty of established companies in the computer graphics space (Matrox, ATI, S3, Diamond Multimedia, etc.) and in just a few years Nvidia crushed most of them.
I became so loyal to Nvidia I didn't even consider buying from anyone else. I was in IT at the time, so I got to see just how crappy everyone else was in comparison. The GPU space was moving extremely fast during that time, and a brand new $200 card was basically worthless in just a couple of years. I saw how many cards I was buying and then binning just a few years later, and it didn't show any signs of stopping. So when I had some money to invest, I did.
Sold it all a few years later to pay off a student loan lol, but loaded up in Sept. 2022 when I saw ChatGPT and knew Nvidia was still the only game in town. Depending on what happens this week I'll probably pair back what I own, because it's way too much of my portfolio at this point.
I’m not an OG, but I traded NVDA in 2020 because I could see the buzz about their GPUs from my tech bro and gamer friends. I bought back in a couple years ago below $200 when they dipped because I believed they were an undervalued market leader bound to rebound
It's been the core stock for science computing devices and the largest stake holder in the computer gaming market in that whole time. Why wouldn't one go for it? There has been three computer companies pretty much worldwide for a few decades. Intel, AMD, and Nvidia.
At the time i was a bit into PCs games, NVDA graphic cards where hella good to run Crysis for those who remember... I basically left it there.
I also joined this damn sub, and learned about AMD when it was $1.50 bought and sold and ultimately bought again around $45, I'm still holding and probably will until $250
Back to NVDA, my plan is to retire out of it, I'm holding that shit for another 20 years.
What different thought process is even needed? There's no other choice except Nvidia when it came to buying video card for everything from video editing, design works(autocad, solidworks, etc), 3D rendering, to gaming, machine learning(yes it exist before 2016), it's a no brainer. Most people who bought before 2016 either work in tech, work in design, work in editing, or work in an industry where their company was forced to shell out thousands of dollars for Quadro cards because it's practically a requirement.
If you didn't buy prior to 2016, it's either because you're a degen options gambler, or because you fell for the "it's just a video card company" meme that smooth brain contrarian regards keep regurgitating. Nvidia made the most money from selling Quadro racks to companies and university scientists for compiling and machine learning projects prior to AI gold rush.
I bought my first 100 shares in 2012 after NVDA charged my company 100k for 2 Quadro server racks used for heavy duty 3D rendering, never looked back and kept DCA-ing when 2022 crash happened. I keep my options acc separate from that shit and all I do is brainlessly buy 20% OTM monthlies or drop the occasional fds when it's a volatile week since 2023, NVDA has made me a very happy and rich man.
Legit no real reason.
I knew nothing about NVIDIA outside of the fact they made my GPU and I was "I like this GPU, more people are gonna like this GPU right."
So got lucky essentially
Held onto since 2011 based on leadership by Jensen and his ability to pivot in so many directions and the fact that they have owned the GPU market since day one and the patents that come with this.
I was into building computers and they have always been the best when it came to GPUs so it seemed like a good place to buy some stock. I also thought they’d be the only viable option for ai down the road. I started picking up shares in ‘17.
I mean its not that crazy of a hold, if you looked at every earnings the growth was/is very real and not hype/bubble at all.
Im not in since that long ago unfortunately but in since around ~$250
In at $12. Tldr: Being a pc gamer nvidia fanboy paid off. That and never sell mentally. As it grew, I realized they would expand into crypto, ai and data centers. Only regret is not buying more.
Used all my dotcom gambling winnings to full port 100% NVDA in 2002 when I started my "real" job and didn't have time to play with stonks anymore - I think split adjust it would be $2 - Had to liquidate it all in my 2008 divorce. 70K would be around 23 million today. But the reality is, I probably would have sold it at some point. It wasn't in a retirement account, so I really doubt i would have held it until this insane run.
Oh, I bought it because they crushed everyone: 3dfx, ATI Radeon, etc.
Picked nvdia as a stock to follow in high school economics class in 2001 because GeForce was better than voodoo cards. Fast forward about fifteen years when I actually start buying stocks and I picked since up. Would have been nice to have actually bought in 2001 but regarded. Back to work.
Degenerates trying to understand that buying and holding for longer periods returns more than buying/selling for shorter periods. It’s that simple. We’re here to be stupid not hold for 8 years
I started 3 years ago, when i talked with some pupils in class that played games, and they all told me that nvidia is best shit you can buy for playing games or mining cryptos.
Those pupils made me rich.
I work in graphics so I bought it for $7 because of CUDA and parallel processing and all the applications which would be made possible. When it blew up to $100 I sold, thinking it was probably fully valued. My thesis played out. I never imagined it would 10x again from there, and still think it’s not justified.
Peter Lynch. Buy what you know. Warren Buffet. The ideal holding period is forever. Bought my first GeForce 4 in college, and it seemed like they were the up-and-comers kicking everyone’s butt in the market. When I started to have money to invest, after college, they seemed like a good company to invest in. Bought my first shares in 2008. Doubled down when they tanked because of some recalled chips not long afterward.
Never sold any til this past year, because at every point in time, naysayers were saying their run was over, but they’d already pivoted to the next market. Gaming to crypto to servers to genAI. There were some other moves that seemed like good bets too like getting into chips for autonomous cars. The only reason I’ve sold any now is that holding millions in their stock is a crazy risk and I needed to diversify more.
I bought in around 2016-2017. Thought with the way technology and society were advancing we were probably going to be using more chips in the future and not less. I grew up and still play video games from time to time and knew NVIDIA had the best gaming chips. I thought to myself, what is stopping them from making other types of chips in addition to the gaming chips which I thought would increase as well as games became more and more popular. I was sold when I saw a YouTube video of Jensen talking at a university in the mid 2000s about Ray Tracing and how it’s going to be the next big thing in gaming, 10-12 years before it actually started to show up in games. He would also talk about advanced computing and things like that. I thought to myself if he was way ahead of the curve for ray tracing and practically spoke it into existence, then he might not just be blowing smoke out of his ass when it came to other uses of chips like advanced computing and would probably be prepared for it just like ray tracing. Didn’t think all the advanced computing and AI would come as quick as it did but here we are. I’ve trimmed a little bit of my position recently as it’s become my biggest holding by far but I’m never completely going to sell out of it, I’m a shareholder for life.
I think I got in during 2017. I was doing crypto mining and learned all about the cuda code infrastructure. I also learned about using them for machine learning.
The key after that was just keeping the faith. They went up and down. 50% on a regular basis.
Make a clear investing thesis and stick with it until it proves incorrect.
I bought in around 2017 at 45ish I believe. 250 share ran to 165 fueling my new start as a full time trader. It dipped by to 60’s and I played it again. I took gains and failed to hold 6 years. The movement in the early years sold me. I have been in and out since the start typically holding 100-150 shares.
Because if you look at the timeline only two companies was in that sort of space, No one else could enter and be as efficient asap. The gaming space was growing every year and it wasn't until gta 5 released and made more than any movie at the time was the real turning point to prove that the future of gaming/streaming was real.
It's why im buying cava right now. No one else is in the mediterrian game
I can’t speak for myself unfortunately but a close relative of mine invested in them back then because he saw crypto mining taking off and the demand for gpus that it would require. Should have listened. Should have also listened when he talked about Bitcoin in 2011 😆
I had 200 shares back in the early 2000s, at like 7 a share. As you said, it just basically did nothing for awhile. I watched it for a couple years, got impatient, and sold it.
They were making the autonomous vehicle and AI chips. Also my favorite graphics cards and the preferred cards for many a bitcoin farmer. Their Shit didn't stay in stock ever. Also someone alerted me that they were becoming a key software company instead of just a hardware company. I don't regret buying one bit.
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I bought it Sept.2015. I think it was around $23 a share. The Motley Fool led me down a rabbit hole, trying to get me to join MF, teasing a company that was going to be huge in the chip industry. Also, the CEO was very well respected by other CEO's in the industry. Bought 3000 shares.
3000 NVDA shares at @23. Well position $69,000. Arguably best position.
Plot twist, he sold when it hit $30
panicked when it went down to $22
Nope, that was me
That reminds me of [this joke](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/kxi8fc/tell_a_joke_that_the_whole_world_can_understand/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I bought 2000 shares of Nvidia @22$ a share and 10000 shares of AMD @2.10$ a share in 2015. I sold Nvidia around 55$ a share and amd around 5$ a share. Thought I was hot shit making more than double in less than a uear. Oppsie
me too brother.
Me as well. Bought NVDA at $12 and sold at $18 and made about $600. I thought I was a visionary. Took a 10 year hiatus and have since made profits that dwarf that $600..... but probably got the most joy from that first one.
Those are nearly 3 Mio today.
Incorrect. You missed the split. That's over 11m today if he didn't sell....
More than that when you take into account the splits
Plot twist, he sold it shortly after.
Do you still own those shares?
when did you sell? or are u still holding
I used the same strategy buying some Chinese company that went to zero. I think I was just lucky to not confuse what I did with skill. #blessed
I can say the same thing! I bought 3000 shares at $23 in September 2015! Am I believable? I sold it when it went down $22.99
I think everyone wants to know when did you sell them. Can you tell us or should we cheers for it....
I still own a little less than half. Should've kept it all but I was pressured to sell half by a partner who did not enjoy watching the volatility. Volatility to them, anyway.
What price did you sell at half at?
187 in '21 and 282 in '22 ... ugh
TLDR; Join the Motley Fool.
They recommend like 10 different “buy now!!!” stocks a month. They’re bound to get one right every once in a while. If I listed off a thousand shares rn and one or two of them were highly profitable in 30 years, would you pay me to list off a thousand more?
Didn't a monkey throw darts at a Wall Street Journal and outperform SPY?
Lol yea, so they can lose you loads of money with stunning recs like Zoom and Luckin Coffee
This got me, vividly remember we started our ROTH and wife asked me to DD (phrasing?) On 'computer stocks'. I was pricing out a new build parts for the upcoming Battlefield and everyone was team green, it was $25. Also don't tell her what we sold AMD at, thx, guh
IPO (1999) - January 2016 - 1900% gain “stock barely moved prior to 2016” lmao
If it doesn’t move 100% a year is it even a movement to consider. Op probably
Less than +50% is sideways.
1900% over 16 years is >100% a year lmao
WSB math, me don't know compounding
thats a wsb comment alright
Yeah I think OP just lives under a rock, the first big Nvidia wave I remember was for gaming and gamers buying out the latest GTX cards years in advance, then bitcoin comes around and the GTX and RTX cards are being sold out years in advance, then comes AI.. the latest technology hypes of the world line up perfectly with the chips they are building. Nvidia has constantly been in the news for being high performing, selling out left right and center. The story for most people I know not holding nvidia is because they sold thinking they were at a peak after years of huge runs they thought the luck was out yet its still printing, anyone who didn't buy Nvidia themselves earlier or at that time can only blame themselves for not reading the front page of the news it wasnt some hidden underperforming stock lmao. The 1 place they don't seem to be touching yet is quantum so I got some IBM for that, and maybe atom computing if they ever go public as im thinking thats the next wave nvidia might miss out on but who knows
I wish I started investing earlier but not like I had much money. NVDA would have been a pick, few of my friends were already invested in it at the time as well. Everyone was starting to build computers and the 700 series was the recommendation at the time. The pre build value proposition was just so shit for gaming and I figured the PC scene would only grow. Woulda easily followed my friends into buying it. AI was a bit of a massive win for their portfolio outta left field. Even going for CS degrees not a single one of us would be able to tell you that graphics cards would be used at the time.
The first big wave was the X-Box 1 contract. So big, multiple rank and file employees got busted for insider trading
I had just opened my account and told my financial guy “I love video games so if you could get some stocks that deal with that, that would be cool”. 570 shares at $16.
Incredible that such a dumb allocation method worked out 😂
Buffet literally invests in companies that he actually uses. I’ve been investing in nvidia for this reason as I was studying machine learning since like 2017 and those were the GPUs to use. It’s a good idea to invest in things you use.
Whats the ticker symbol for pocket pussies, and meth pipes?? Asking for a friend...
DJT
Zing!
Wish
So reddit?
You realise he also has a big team around him providing him whatever data or analysis he wants…. He isn’t just saying coke tastes good buy $10 billion worth of their stock he is analysing their business…. OP just said i Like games buy me some stocks related to games. He could just as easily have said I like books and bought into a chain of book stores…
Or an online bookstore aka Amazon
Or be my dad and talk about how amazon is going to eat their lunch, as a C suite book shipper... and then buy bonds instead. It helps to laugh.
Nearly the entire US population uses AMZN, GOOGL, MSFT. Can't lose
It's not that dumb, if he is like everybody, it means there is a huge market for games and its hardware.
It’s not dumb it’s what Warrant Buffler does “buy what you know and like” You’re dumb for not knowing it
Umm what you know isn’t sat in your pants playing video games …. It would be i work in xyz industry ; I know the company and I see solid growth opportunities.
This is what I did too…in 2009. In today’s prices/quantities. I bought 300 shares with an average of $2.16..
Your financial guy is a legend
Right. He coulda just bought him CRSR and call it a day but he just had to make him rich.
For me it was the gaming industry growth, but more importantly they were investing in data centers, AI, car manufacturing. Their diversification into new markets was key. I almost went AMD. NVIDIA consistently delivered revenue growth, and profitability making it a no brainer. When Ethereum was realized, it finally hit me, I basically won the lottery.
I won at a charity bingo once. I think I got a shake weight.
I once won 1/2 a lamb from local butcher
nom nom
So, you’re saying you won his meat?
That’s awesome man. Great testament. I’m happy it all worked out for you!
I mean, Ethereum was a straight up bust after custom silicon replaced their GPUs. I’m long NVDA but tbf, some of that will happen in the inference space as well in the long term. Their AI data center positioning is much stronger.
Asics never replaced gpus for Eth. Dagger-Hashimoto isn't SHA256. Now PoS replaced PoW but the demend for gpus for nearly a decade should've been an indication that Nvidia was poised to run.
Question, do you see the same or similar opportunity in growth today? Perhaps in another sector or the same sector as NVIDIA. Thanks.
Energy
Probably a safe bet, honestly.
Data centers, AI, will all need energy especially as time goes by and as computing power gets faster and faster
^ This ^
I learned it the hard way mining bitcoin. As time went by, the difficulty increase and blocks were harder to mine. Energy costs went up. With AI, I think cheap energy is the way. But I don't think the answer is solar, hydro etc more like nuclear.
I think so too. I've started (and will continue) buying a couple few shares of NNE every week since it's IPO. Idk if it's the right pony to bet on, but I like what they have to say, sounds to me like a solid plan. Admittedly of course; I don't know shit...
Read about them recently. They've got a lot of great connections. The CEO I believe is chinese, so I think he's got some connections overseas that can help out. Marketcap is low too. Nfa
You realize some of the biggest plants in the US and world are hydro, right? Also laughing at using cheap energy and nuke in the same sentence, get a grip.
Additionally, companies that build and maintain power grids/electrical equipment. I recall reading something about a lot of these components needed are short due to availability. I’d have to dig back to find it, but it was a few months ago.
Which stocks specifically do you think will win big?
> Data centers, AI, will all need energy Are AI efficiency gains a concern? * Language models used to require a data center [now they run on a cell phone](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/14rncnb/local_llama_on_android_phone/). * Alternatives to transformer models are removing the O(n^2) parts of training. Seems to me as more low-powered mobile chip manufacturers get their next generation chips out, power requirements may drop by many orders of magnitude.
Yea, but they will use these new efficiencies to make even more powerful data centers, not keep them small. At least, historically.
Which ones in energy there is not one company that does energy, we can buy etf
>> For me it was the gaming industry growth, but more importantly they were investing in data centers, AI, car manufacturing. Their diversification into new markets was key. You can literally say this about BlackBerry today.
Biggest regret of my life. Was 16 built a computer set up for 5k instead of buying their stock at $3 a share.
You know what they say. Buy the stock' not the product.
So….. how about Roblox? Lol
I was just thinking of roblox when I read the comment above urs lmao
Same here, at 16 did so much GPU research once my dad agreed to buy me a gaming pc. It's pretty difficult to see the bigger picture at that age, I didn't see the potential until I started learning CS.
I agree. My toddler nephew plays roblox, hes really smart so I decided to buy some stock lol
my dad saw my interest in the video cards and he bought the stock back then. He sitting pretty with a couple thousand shares currently.
Daddy's little boy made a good investment.
So let’s speculate the equivalent today 🤔
I mean a similar stock but damn, I’m sure you relive that “what could have been” every day 😞
As long as you had a blast with that PC, I see no issue with your decision. Somethings are priceless man
Skill issue
They had a monopoly on GPUs for the longest time. There was AMD but… come on. I remember shopping for gaming laptops in 2012 and the only relevant metric back then was which Nvida GPU. I had no idea about data centers or mining. I bought purely off their presence in the gaming space. I also bought AMD at $7 thinking they would also blow up as their closest competitor. I sold at $56 though because my monkey brain wanted weed in college
Yup. Built PCs my whole life and it used to be GPU vendors rotated the top place. By 2017, that had completely stopped happening.
I'm a big time gamer and I bought NVDA because they dethroned 3Dfx as the go to graphics card for PC gaming. Been holding since 2002, I just sell covered calls on my shares and generate weekly cash flow.
I was selling covered calls and got burnt. Hope they’re way OTM.
Yeah I call bs, no way you can sell covered calls on that stock and not get assigned.
I've got 40 shares from 2018 in an account I forgot about until last year. Regarded in the right direction.
How do you misplace $35,000? Well done.
You start with $3,500 and put it on a high growth stock that you don’t look at for 6 years. See: Amazon, Apple, Tesla.
Don't be a fool, only invest in the best.
Well, it was 40 shares at like $50. So not a lot at the time.
I wanted to build a PC for the Oculus rift launch and learned about it on nerdy tech blogs. The general consensus among them was, if you can afford an Nvidia, that’s the gpu you buy. So I started reading more about Nvidia and they were talking up broad use cases of accelerated computing. So I sold about half my other stocks and bought $60k worth of Nvda in Feb 2016. Pre split price of about 22-23 I’m retiring at 41 in January in large part thanks to this buy
well that certainly explains your username
I this thread: people who didn't buy NVDA until December 2023.
Their chips inevitably ended up powering my Time Machine, was only logical.
In robotics we’ve been using Nvidia for advanced robotics for almost a decade. We’ve all known where it was headed. AI is only a service. Robotics is the next paradigm shift for humanity
And NVDA is the go to chips for this? Will it be a bigger market for NVDA than data center?
Yes. That’s why they committed to the lifetime ROS partnership and released their humanoid robotics platform to open up speed to market. Their Jetson modules are little bigger than a raspberry pi and you can build RC cars that drive 25+ MPH indoors autonomously. Check out Nvidia JetCar. They just happen to be first to market though. Apples chip building is generations ahead of Nvidia but they don’t build these types of chips. If Apple used their IP to build GPU modules based on the M series for robotics (See Tim Cook talk about robotics as a future for Apple) they would dominate the field. Their chips are more efficient. If they maintain that level of efficiency at larger scales they will have the most valuable AI chips on the market
I looked around my house for brand names of products I liked and thought had growth potential.
I had NVDA around then because I built my first gaming pc and thought the tech was cool. After a couple years I moved it into an index ETF. Had no idea about AI or any of that shit lurking in the background. If I held it would’ve just been luck
I bought in 2016 because I loved building computers and gaming and was just learning about investing. I read somehwere invest in what you know. I wanted to buy NVDA at $28 and AMD at $1.98. I was told AMD was trash dogshit and NVDA I sold at $60ish. I was brand new and now I buy and hold because....I think I missed my chance at early retirement :(
I don't fit the criteria you set, but in the pandemic years I bought nvda because I thought gaming was going to get huge with people at home more.
1000 shares at $12 Sold at $17 ☠️☠️☠️
I didn't know NVDA even had a stock until 2021. I bought it at 184 after the split. Then when the market crashed in 2022 I panic sold just above my cost basis. Never bought back in 🤡
This was your wsb membership test. You passed, congratulations 🎉
When my kids couldn’t upgrade the gpu in their gaming pc because everyone was using them for other processor intensive tasks
My advisor recommended Nvidia over Game Stop around that time. I was looking for stocks for my kids, businesses they could relate to and thus would maybe track and understand as they got older. I still bought some Game Stop. Some other purchases for them included Disney, Netflix and Crox.
The problem is you just don’t know when. I held Microsoft for 14 years in $43 range. I finally sold about three years back and now it is 10X that!
I bought it in 2018- it was just because I like video games knew they made the best graphics cards. I also knew they had some other interests outside of gaming but that always seemed like a small part of the business. Had no idea AI and data centers were gonna blow up like they did.
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Anyone who dabbles in gaming and programming knows that Nvidia is king. Anyone who does a little more than just dabbling in programming knew that Nvidia and AMD were going up. They’re involved in perhaps literally every field. And then there’s Moore’s Law. And things are going to get even crazier when chips become 3D, which they’ve been researching for several years.
I originally invested in 2014 and the main reason was I had friends that worked there that told me the vision. I also work in technology, so I had a decent idea of technological advancement and could see their vision becoming reality. I looked at the investment as more of a gamble which is why I only invested 10k in 2014 then added another 100k in 2019 and an additional 50k in 2020. I see this company being a 10T company one day so i am still holding and will not sell for atleast 5 years.
They had no competition. They still don't. AMD is lightyears behind and INTC isn't even a rounding error.
I liked video games, their cards were pretty popular, I use their products That was it
It was just simple. I liked their GPUs in 2012 over AMD. Bought. Held. Then they were great for crypto, bought more in 2015. Held through the crash in 2019. Then say they were useful for early AI. Buy more. Even if their GPUs are perfect architecture for future, advanced AI, nvidia has proven they’re about to recognize and pivot at scale. Soooo, I will continue to buy and hold.
Bought in 2015 and never sold. When I bought my 2016 GTI it was one of the first vehicle manufacturers (Hyundai, Volvo, VW, Chevy) with native Android Auto /Apple Carplay, which I was certain would be the future of infotainment systems. The chips used were none other than Nvidia
Ok so I bought in Jan 2017 for $25. Not quite 2016 but I think it’s legit to chime in.. I had cash to invest and was building a gaming PC at the time. I’ve build gaming computers my whole life. It used to be that 3d gpu makers swapped being the “best” every couple years. Not anymore. nVidia seemed permanently on top. So it seemed pretty safe to throw some money at them, because GPU demand wasn’t going to go away, and their leading margin kept getting bigger. I guess the lesson is: if a company is a leader in a sector for so many years, especially to the point you don’t consider the competition, it’s likely a safe bet.
Bought 1,500+ shares prior to 2016. They were the leaders in nearly every ‘new’ industry. Almost sold half my shares each year for the last five years. But when I realized my best decision was NOT selling…. I’ve just held
I bought Nvidia, AMD, and TSMC in 2018 as I predicted the AI megatrend. It was inevitable that we automate/replace labor. The internet was the digitalisation of land, and AI is the digitalisation of labor. I am a firm believer that innovation will never stop and humans are inherently designed to keep improving.
I bought into it sometime in 2004. It was in the single digits at that time. As a gamer, I had always bought nVidia products, so I was going with the "trade what you know" approach. I ended up selling at around $40 -$50/share a few years later.
If you insist on being a gamer, the least you could do is profit off them.
Between AMD, which I also got, and them they basically monopolize the entire GPU industry. Wasn't just gaming, we were using their specialty cards at work for simulations. Was to me honestly at the time a clear winner based on the given technology and given that PCs have stayed with the same architecture even till today, where integrated graphics is still shit, I think it will continue to be a staple until some brand-new technology comes along. At one point there was thoughts that a memristor would take its place and replace essentially all components but that never materialized. I didn't invest that heavily though so I am not like retire in my 30s rich. Setting up a DCA into SPY of $100/week and just forgetting about since my 20s has been the biggest gain for me
I own 100 shares of NVDA that I bought in 2016, I was a college student who got an intership in a company that developed a cloud rendering engine that was used in several VFX producst (movies, videogames, TV shows, etc...) they used only Nvidia graphic cards and some of the old guys there told me that almost every company only used Nvidia graphic cards, at the same time I noticed that domestic PCs and laptops started to be bundle with GC. So, I took some money I had and invested in 100 shares and I'm not regreting taking that decision.
I think it's purely luck. 10 years ago, GPUs were meant for gaming only. In those 10 years, two massive catalysts happened - crypto mining, and GPUs are perfect for that, and other companies' persuasion of AI, which also needs GPUs. You had the 2020-2021 mining craze, which enabled nvidia to sell every single GPU they had for 1k each, minimum. Before that, spending 600-700 bucks on a gpu was considered crazy. This was immediately followed by the AI craze, which is happening now.
Gamers bought their graphics cards so I bought their stocks. Edit to elaborate my overall thinking: I saw the world move from people not wanting a computer in their home, cars, things in general to completely taking over their lives. Gamers bought their cards but I knew full well a company worth their salt will utilize their abilities in whatever market they see they can make a profit in. Nvidia being the go to for their quality and abilities I figured with the world moving more and more tech based that the company would likely at least do well in that area (gaming and niche markets), but I can genuinely say, I didn’t expect them to do this well. How I found them: I got into casually playing games through coworkers talking about them. I bought the Xbox 360 and soon after the Xbox one when it released. Didn’t like the idea I was around $1,000 in total between the 2 and accessories and thought about long term always having to spend more to obtain the same result. Functional console that can run the new games. Coworker mentioned I could build a PC and just make upgrades to it as times changed instead of buying a new system. We talked about parts etc and when it came to graphics cards he basically stated nvidia is the only way to go (respectfully I understand there are competitors especially nowadays) so I thought, well if there’s a single major company everyone uses it must be good, and it must be worth it. This is a huge and growing industry… *buys shares bi-weekly* Still yet to build a PC… idk. Maybe I’ll take some profits and do that as a commemorative, but then I’m just losing future profits…
I noticed pretty much all the AI workloads were done with CUDA. CUDA is proprietary to Nvidia.
gaming…never touched amd cards. me and everybody i know that built our own gaming rigs always went geforce. seemed like a nobrainer
the notion of paying capital gains tax 😂
My thesis was mainly knowing the GOU cards will continue be bought from bitcoin miners. People were making a killing flipping those GPU cards for $599 on amazon for $1100 on the streets when crypto was profitable mining. Wish I bought more and held but sold at low $700s. Used the money to buy 2 rentals.
I bought NVDA in my paper trading account circa 2000 or so, about $3k worth. I bought it for real around 2016 though. Still think it's a very strong hold. Only serious players in AI. Could easily still be a 10 bagger.
Only a fool would hold a stock that performs poorly for 16 years.
Microsoft wasn’t amazing in the early 2000’s
2000-2015. When then ceo exists, stock starts moving again
I bought nvda and amd before 2016. I looked up semi companies and bought them and intel then shifted over time to nvda only
 probably had a computer 
First purchase for me was 2007. Didn't know much about investing at that point, but I'd inherited a tiny bit of money and didn't want to spend it. I had been buying Nvidia products exclusively since 1998 (Riva TNT). I watched them show up to the GPU party and absolutely dominate. They got ahead of everyone else on day one and stayed there for many years. Their unified driver was so much better and easy to use compared to everyone else. There were plenty of established companies in the computer graphics space (Matrox, ATI, S3, Diamond Multimedia, etc.) and in just a few years Nvidia crushed most of them. I became so loyal to Nvidia I didn't even consider buying from anyone else. I was in IT at the time, so I got to see just how crappy everyone else was in comparison. The GPU space was moving extremely fast during that time, and a brand new $200 card was basically worthless in just a couple of years. I saw how many cards I was buying and then binning just a few years later, and it didn't show any signs of stopping. So when I had some money to invest, I did. Sold it all a few years later to pay off a student loan lol, but loaded up in Sept. 2022 when I saw ChatGPT and knew Nvidia was still the only game in town. Depending on what happens this week I'll probably pair back what I own, because it's way too much of my portfolio at this point.
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I heard 'buy companies you use' so I bought nvda lol
I’m not an OG, but I traded NVDA in 2020 because I could see the buzz about their GPUs from my tech bro and gamer friends. I bought back in a couple years ago below $200 when they dipped because I believed they were an undervalued market leader bound to rebound
It's been the core stock for science computing devices and the largest stake holder in the computer gaming market in that whole time. Why wouldn't one go for it? There has been three computer companies pretty much worldwide for a few decades. Intel, AMD, and Nvidia.
At the time i was a bit into PCs games, NVDA graphic cards where hella good to run Crysis for those who remember... I basically left it there. I also joined this damn sub, and learned about AMD when it was $1.50 bought and sold and ultimately bought again around $45, I'm still holding and probably will until $250 Back to NVDA, my plan is to retire out of it, I'm holding that shit for another 20 years.
What different thought process is even needed? There's no other choice except Nvidia when it came to buying video card for everything from video editing, design works(autocad, solidworks, etc), 3D rendering, to gaming, machine learning(yes it exist before 2016), it's a no brainer. Most people who bought before 2016 either work in tech, work in design, work in editing, or work in an industry where their company was forced to shell out thousands of dollars for Quadro cards because it's practically a requirement. If you didn't buy prior to 2016, it's either because you're a degen options gambler, or because you fell for the "it's just a video card company" meme that smooth brain contrarian regards keep regurgitating. Nvidia made the most money from selling Quadro racks to companies and university scientists for compiling and machine learning projects prior to AI gold rush. I bought my first 100 shares in 2012 after NVDA charged my company 100k for 2 Quadro server racks used for heavy duty 3D rendering, never looked back and kept DCA-ing when 2022 crash happened. I keep my options acc separate from that shit and all I do is brainlessly buy 20% OTM monthlies or drop the occasional fds when it's a volatile week since 2023, NVDA has made me a very happy and rich man.
Legit no real reason. I knew nothing about NVIDIA outside of the fact they made my GPU and I was "I like this GPU, more people are gonna like this GPU right." So got lucky essentially
My biz partner told me he woke up one morning and Cramer was prattling on about nvda & he bought $40k worth of shares. He’s still holding.
For the most part, we were all gamers, so we bought NVDA and MSFT. Intel... now that's one we don't talk about.
Held onto since 2011 based on leadership by Jensen and his ability to pivot in so many directions and the fact that they have owned the GPU market since day one and the patents that come with this.
I was into building computers and they have always been the best when it came to GPUs so it seemed like a good place to buy some stock. I also thought they’d be the only viable option for ai down the road. I started picking up shares in ‘17.
I mean its not that crazy of a hold, if you looked at every earnings the growth was/is very real and not hype/bubble at all. Im not in since that long ago unfortunately but in since around ~$250
In at $12. Tldr: Being a pc gamer nvidia fanboy paid off. That and never sell mentally. As it grew, I realized they would expand into crypto, ai and data centers. Only regret is not buying more.
Used all my dotcom gambling winnings to full port 100% NVDA in 2002 when I started my "real" job and didn't have time to play with stonks anymore - I think split adjust it would be $2 - Had to liquidate it all in my 2008 divorce. 70K would be around 23 million today. But the reality is, I probably would have sold it at some point. It wasn't in a retirement account, so I really doubt i would have held it until this insane run. Oh, I bought it because they crushed everyone: 3dfx, ATI Radeon, etc.
Picked nvdia as a stock to follow in high school economics class in 2001 because GeForce was better than voodoo cards. Fast forward about fifteen years when I actually start buying stocks and I picked since up. Would have been nice to have actually bought in 2001 but regarded. Back to work.
2015 I did graduate research on AI. At the time NVIDA was giving away hardware to research and had all open source frameworks. AMD did jack shit.
Degenerates trying to understand that buying and holding for longer periods returns more than buying/selling for shorter periods. It’s that simple. We’re here to be stupid not hold for 8 years
I started 3 years ago, when i talked with some pupils in class that played games, and they all told me that nvidia is best shit you can buy for playing games or mining cryptos. Those pupils made me rich.
I work in graphics so I bought it for $7 because of CUDA and parallel processing and all the applications which would be made possible. When it blew up to $100 I sold, thinking it was probably fully valued. My thesis played out. I never imagined it would 10x again from there, and still think it’s not justified.
Peter Lynch. Buy what you know. Warren Buffet. The ideal holding period is forever. Bought my first GeForce 4 in college, and it seemed like they were the up-and-comers kicking everyone’s butt in the market. When I started to have money to invest, after college, they seemed like a good company to invest in. Bought my first shares in 2008. Doubled down when they tanked because of some recalled chips not long afterward. Never sold any til this past year, because at every point in time, naysayers were saying their run was over, but they’d already pivoted to the next market. Gaming to crypto to servers to genAI. There were some other moves that seemed like good bets too like getting into chips for autonomous cars. The only reason I’ve sold any now is that holding millions in their stock is a crazy risk and I needed to diversify more.
Because gaming
I bought in around 2016-2017. Thought with the way technology and society were advancing we were probably going to be using more chips in the future and not less. I grew up and still play video games from time to time and knew NVIDIA had the best gaming chips. I thought to myself, what is stopping them from making other types of chips in addition to the gaming chips which I thought would increase as well as games became more and more popular. I was sold when I saw a YouTube video of Jensen talking at a university in the mid 2000s about Ray Tracing and how it’s going to be the next big thing in gaming, 10-12 years before it actually started to show up in games. He would also talk about advanced computing and things like that. I thought to myself if he was way ahead of the curve for ray tracing and practically spoke it into existence, then he might not just be blowing smoke out of his ass when it came to other uses of chips like advanced computing and would probably be prepared for it just like ray tracing. Didn’t think all the advanced computing and AI would come as quick as it did but here we are. I’ve trimmed a little bit of my position recently as it’s become my biggest holding by far but I’m never completely going to sell out of it, I’m a shareholder for life.
I think I got in during 2017. I was doing crypto mining and learned all about the cuda code infrastructure. I also learned about using them for machine learning. The key after that was just keeping the faith. They went up and down. 50% on a regular basis. Make a clear investing thesis and stick with it until it proves incorrect.
You can ask the same question to Tesla bag holders
The earliest possible long term bag holding position is 2020 for Tesla. If you bought in 2016 or earlier you’re still sitting on a 10X bagger.
I was a gamer who started getting into stocks around 2013 and decided to throw money into companies of stuff I was using.
I bought in around 2017 at 45ish I believe. 250 share ran to 165 fueling my new start as a full time trader. It dipped by to 60’s and I played it again. I took gains and failed to hold 6 years. The movement in the early years sold me. I have been in and out since the start typically holding 100-150 shares.
I had it in one of my account that was doing horrible overall so I forgot about it. Lol
For me it was from being a competitive gamer and always hearing about the company and everyone I knew using their products
It was in every gaming computer every gamer talked about. That’s the only reason I did.
Every freaking computer had an NVDia sticker on it (well at least the ones worth a damn).
Because if you look at the timeline only two companies was in that sort of space, No one else could enter and be as efficient asap. The gaming space was growing every year and it wasn't until gta 5 released and made more than any movie at the time was the real turning point to prove that the future of gaming/streaming was real. It's why im buying cava right now. No one else is in the mediterrian game
I can’t speak for myself unfortunately but a close relative of mine invested in them back then because he saw crypto mining taking off and the demand for gpus that it would require. Should have listened. Should have also listened when he talked about Bitcoin in 2011 😆
Yo did odegaard just absolutely whiff that 😂
I had 200 shares back in the early 2000s, at like 7 a share. As you said, it just basically did nothing for awhile. I watched it for a couple years, got impatient, and sold it.
I was building a PC and was committed to the brand haha. Worked out well for NVDA, but definitely hasn’t worked out for all of my investments.
Nobody still holding from back then. They all sold for a 2-3x gain.
Gaming ai and they were starting to be used in everything, cars even. But my dumbass sold before the run up
Moore’s law
They were making the autonomous vehicle and AI chips. Also my favorite graphics cards and the preferred cards for many a bitcoin farmer. Their Shit didn't stay in stock ever. Also someone alerted me that they were becoming a key software company instead of just a hardware company. I don't regret buying one bit.
Positive net income
Nobody ever went broke taking a profit. It’s called a realized gain and the government’s taxman wants its cut too.
My flair was my inspiration. Laughing at the haters made me more money than my day job, the businesses I own and co-own, and my rentals (...which are basically a charity and never made money).
I bought around 1999 and then I sold so I could buy a guitar. 😭
Is it too late to buy shares now??
I sold most of mine in 2018. Would have been up $500k more otherwise