Back in the late 90’s, I had $47K in AOL stock which I’d purchased for $1700. Sadly, I didn’t have the sense to cash it in and take my profit at the time.
I had a friend that was hot for JDS which trading $285 a share.
At the time I had gone through a rather nasty divorce and needed to build a retirement account, getting old.
So I looked at the numbers and then I started looking at the numbers of the rest of the Tech companies. I sold all of my investments in June of 2000.
Paid off my house and all of my bills, the friend who recommended JDS is still working. Aside from that AOL sucked from the start,