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Its a good sized company, it was public a few years back and got taken private during covid. I've voiced my frustration to our head of HR. To be fair its not terrible. I guess id say id prefer more control. I basically have it all in the SP500 equivalent but the fund has slightly higher fees than i could get outside the 401k vehicle. but its very marginal (less than 1%).

Yea, one of the biggest gripes i have with my company is that I cant invest my 401k the way I want. There are very few options that have minimal fees.

more GOOG

Nice! I love it when I get a win out of microcaps. I feel much more invested and connected to these little guys. Much more fun than my larger postitions in GOOG and others.

Just buy bitcoin. But one other that I've been playing with buying and trading on and off is EXOD. They are a wallet and have significant BTC reserve. They very volatile. Super small % but little trades here and there.

Wife and I finished Alone Australia Season 3 Last night. Epic season hard core people with some serious grit. First 2 seasons sucked but 3 was solid.

cant decide if this relates more towards the crypto believers vs non believers in this thread or just state of world.

GOOG

-- This explosion is nuts. But It likely wont slow Elon down. Im always amazed by the progress being driven by that crazy man.

Oh Yea! Ren is fabulous. On TikTok there is a whole trend of people reacting to the Main portion of "Hi Ren" I always stop to listen. "hi, there ren... its been a little while..." and as an investor. Moneygame is fabulous. PT2. is my fav tho. She sells sea shells down by the sea shore... pure art.

LOL thanks for this

ETH is cool. But thats about it.

One that Im looking into a little right now is TOST. Dont know that id call it broken but probably just overvalued at IPO and its recovering.

100% i believe ETH (or other L1 Crypto) has a place in the future. But I wont trust it as a currency or security. It not decentralized and the big boys don't have me in mind. But it I do believe future businesses will build foundational infrastructure on blockchain/crypto tech that will give them an significant cost and speed advantage. This will likely be a slow evolution. but I expect it will happen.

+1 for me. Held it. programmed on it. Made my own tokens. Made my own NFTs. All as an educational exercise. The end of the education left me saying this is really cool. I believe there is a reasonable chance companies leverage the tech in the future to find unique cost reducing and security increasing interactions. But with ETH i wont hold it as something I am hoping will go up. I still have money in the ecosystem but i just consider it locked tuition money. I continue to add to BTC.

I believe there is a place for it. I dont consider it a currency. Its not decentralized. I hold a very small amount. I believe it will continue to be the forefront of smart contracts and other Web3/blockchain innovation. (first mover advantage and most developers creating things for it) IMO BTC will outperform ETH. BTC is the only one that I will hold long term and continue to accumulate.

25ish minute mark

I do a similar thing with looking at 13F's. I have a list of people I look through their 13F's and say who go their bet wrong or more ideally they were just early and so on the delay i can follow it and the thesis works out for me because they were early and i got a better price. For IPO's every now and then ill use this site. https://stockanalysis.com/ipos/2024/ Then ill just filter to whats down and start throwing them in TIKR for financials and thumbing through them for ideas. I dont do this a lot but I have done it before. RBLX was one that a while after the IPO'd it crashed and I bought and made a nice little swing trade on. I still have a tracker position (super small) but haven't bought back in. They are about back to their IPO levels.

IMO anyone who believes they have privacy anywhere on the internet is very naive.

I have 3 and are expecting twins in July. While I would say I get utterly exhausted and there are times where I want to sell them. They are the best. The greatest investment you can make, is investing your time and attention into your children. No amount of money will make up for time and attention given to your kids. They wont remember much from the early years beyond how much are you there or not there and what is the feeling in your home. Its a shitshow figuratively and literally. But I wouldn't trade it for any amount of money.

Also, his continued bet was that the world wont let the global economy fail. So the big guy will keep screwing the little guy harder and harder, expanding the wealth gap between the haves and the have nots and rates will continue to move towards 0 or lower over the long haul. Even though no one wants to believe it.

Do you have a price target on them. They've been nothing but down for quite a while. But beer isnt going away. What caused todays swing do you know?