16 Greatest Investments Ever

[manch]

Trung Phan 🇨🇦 (TrungTPhan)

Unofficial list of the 16 greatest investments ever

(Minimum gain of $1B)

1/ The best of the best
Naspers - Tencent (2001): $32m → $250B (7800x)
Softbank - Alibaba (2000): $20m → $100B (5000x)

2/ The Facebook winners
Saverin - FB (2004): $15k → $14B (866,666x)
Peter Thiel - FB (2004): $500k → $1B (2000x)

3/ The Google winners
Sequoia/Kleiner - GOOGL (1999): $13m → $20B (1500x)
Jeff Bezos - Google (1998): $250k → $5B (20,000x)
Andy Bechrolsheim - Google (1998): $100k → $1.5B (15,000x)

4/ The “Friends & Family” winners
Jackie & Mike Bezos - Amazon (1995): $250k → $20B - $60B (80,000x to 240,000x)
Bruce McKean (Tobi’s father-in-law) - Shopify (2007): ~$200k → $7B (35,000x)
John & Cathy Phillips - Shopify (2007-09): $750k → $4.4B (6000x)

5/ Other bangers
SIG-Bytedance (2012): $5m → $15B (3000x)
Steve Jobs - Pixar (1986): $5m → $7.4B (1480x)
Ruby Lu - Kuaishou: $40m → $12B (300x)
FB - IG (2012): $1B → $250B (250x)
GOOGL - YT: $1.6B → $300B (200x)
eBay - Paypal (2002): $1.5B → $100B (70x) […]

10/ Elon’s bets on himself
White medium squareTesla: $70m → $120B (1714x)
White medium squareSpaceX: $100m → $40B (400x)

[hanera]

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@manch

Worst sale ever candidate: Goldman sold its position in Alibaba in 2004 for $22m. That stake would be worth $200B now. Goldman’s current market cap is $110B (h/t @fundhunter_co)

So don’t take any financial advice from GS?

[hanera]

The 30 Best Stocks of the Past 30 Years

After analyzing the lifetime returns of 25,967 common stocks, Hendrik Bessembinder determined that just 1,092 of those stocks – or about 4% of the total – generated all of the $34.8 trillion in wealth created for shareholders by the stock market between July 1926 and December 2016. Even more striking, a mere 50 stocks accounted for well over one-third (39.3%) of that amount.

96% are duds?

50 stocks account for 39.3%

Well, the top 5 are:

1. XOM
2. AAPL
3. MSFT
4. GE
5. IBM

$1 invested since IPO is worth $229.55

[manch]

The trick is to get off AAPL before it turns into IBM, XOM and GE.

[Elt1]

Microsoft at all time high. Apple close

[Mortgage4Rentals]

What are everyone’s investment returnsin 2020? and YTD 2021? Best bull market ever.