Name the TIMES GFY could have made you a MULITMILLIONAIRE?
 

Let me start

#1 Battus/Franck telling everyone who would listen on GFY to buy BTC - this was back when BTC was cheaper than the mist rising off a freshly laid cow patty.

#2 A GFY member posting about the IPO of Google and everyone and his dog bum rushing the dude for publicizing a stock that was going to quickly peak and crash and burn

https://i.imgur.com/reBAaTL.png

#3 Multiple FB IPO posts and people replying that since Zuck didn't have a mobile monetization strategy and given the huge float and initial valuatoin, FB will be dog shit (In fairness, FB did dip after IPO - see chart below

https://i.imgur.com/H73AHJU.png

Bought some articles in 2008/2009, just for $100, lately I checked BTC historical stats, would have been 200 Million Dollars if I would have put that $100 there, sounds not realistic but it is.
Now it made me some $'s over time, so it's OK as well.

Oh, and I bought the articles from you/$5 submissions, should have listened to Franck.
;-)

I don't think it's as black and white as not following investment advice of random posters on GFY. Some people just aren't liquid or are unable to risk an amount that would provide a big yield. The bitcoin example is ridiculous, obviously no one thought this random nerd algorithm used to buy drugs and traffick humans would 1,000,000,000x.

I put as much as I could afford into $FB on day one, and sold after I 2x'd because I needed the money. I don't know how much more I could have put in or how long I could have held it that would have had an impact on my life.

Agreed, the BTC example is ridiculous, anyone could have bought, but who would have actually held all these years, thru all the attacks, fear, FUD, etc? Buying at any time is easy part, holding is skilled.

The time when I-Bill stocks were on the rise. :)

Or at trade shows when someone was looking for investors with the idea that if you stuck your dick into a flashlight filled with silicon you'd make millions

Makes me really wish I was around back then, or more specifically old enough to work in the industry back then.

As mentioned: not sure I would have held onto it. But I do think of Franck occasionally.

But I kind of did well with Apple, I'm up 1200% on them. And I'm not even an Apple User.

In 2005-2007 when I worked there, my boss kept telling me to buy stocks and that Apple was going to go huge, but I didn't believe them.. :(

There are GFYers who made literal millions (one I know of at I think 20 million?) from early crypto purchases. If you did any business at all with them, just look up their wallet ID to see if they sold.

I sold a bunch to someone who hasn't sold them yet and they are at 7 figures right now just from what I personally sold them. HODL all the way for them I guess.

Or they lost the keys :1orglaugh

not from this forum but I was referred to an offering for private shares of a new company on some kind of secondary trading market, min buy in was too high for me at the time, $125k so I had to pass.

nonetheless, I did look up the company. it seemed pretty lame at the time, was only available to alumni of a few colleges and looked like a myspace clone.

stupid name too, "thefacebook"

oh well.

Bitcoin ofcourse and seeing top domains that where registered much later than i first registered a domain.

Isn't there a story about BTC flashdrives being given out at some adult convention long ago? They are all worth 7 figures but everyone either lost or didn't bother to note the keys.

We all laughed at Franck. Who has done a "networth" on him now? Did he come out of it good?

What if he was just trolling and acting big, but never actually bought/mined any himself? :upsidedow

Possible I suppose, but it was so cheap back then no reason to make it up at dollars per btc hehe.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh Good one!

Lol I wouldn't put it past that guy. he's an idiot. But I do see small transactions as recent as two months ago so be clearly has access to it.

Probably bought half a helicopter or some shit.

Share your close calls

I remember he said he only owned 1 bitcoin back in those threads..

Revealing balances on a public forum, of anything, is foolish. Franck isn't a fool like that. :2 cents:

I remember him making a thread like "I've been doing a lot of research on BTC and my conclusion is: Buy, as much as possible" and that was when BTC was around $100
Then that was the last time I heard from him.

He never logged on after that?

I spent all of mine ed on silk:321GFY

I can't think of a time that GFY could have made me 7 figures, but the early days of the old ynot live chat and some early IRC webmaster channels definitely did.

I think I remember him logging in when it was around $30k and rubbing it in. I was happy for the guy.

Folks posted robust conversations about how to do FHG, popup, and redirect code ... oh wait, I totally appreciated that advice and followed it.

Relevant to why I try to post useful helpful stuff when I can. The back and forth info is part of what makes GFY excellent.

whats funny, is the truth:1orglaugh

And for the record, Frank was never behind coin, he just happened

I bought in at 20

I just did a simple search on threads dated around that time, interesting to say the least

Who the fuk on GFY is not a milliion Air?

Hindsight is a wonderful thing ... The fact is that tech investing is incredibly hard, for every Google or Facebook, there are probably 1,000 companies that you would have lost money on.

You have to keep focused on new tech that everyone will want. After '98 the internet and mobile phones bought a lot of game changing opportunities, but nevertheless picking the right ones was still pretty difficult.

Folks currently not embracing the incredible power of current AI tools will be in the same boat.

Survivor bias is a bitch. True dat.

Ecig
That Tesla cars were popular before you could see them here ..

BTC for sure could have bought some at $100 had the spare $$$ just did not do it.