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We can't all be masters of the stock market, but with some shrewd investments, you could soon be striking it rich by taking a punt on various tech businesses. The problem is, unless you have a Back to the Future DeLorean, it's hard to tell what the next big thing is, and what's going to crash like NFTs.
After all, who'd have pegged Apple as a company that would go on to be worth more than $4 trillion after it started up in Steve Jobs' garage? The same can be said for Amazon's astronomical rise from an online bookstore to a shopping megapower.
We're sure many people are kicking themselves for not investing back in the day, and unless you're Rob Gronkowski with a 'forgotten' $600k in Apple shares, it might be a little late to get in on the action.
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Still, there's one company that lords it over the rest, with Nvidia being the only one in the world to cross the lucrative $5 trillion market cap. Although the artificial intelligence giant has since dipped to a humble $4.39 trillion at the time of writing, there's no escaping its bumper year. Jaws were on the floor as stock prices soared toward the start of 2025, Nvidia became the first company to be worth over $4 trillion, it's continued signing some impressive deals, and CEO Jensen Huang has been dubbed the 'real-life Iron Man'.
If we had a time machine, we'd definitely be going back to 2015 and investing in Nvidia stock, because in 2025, you'd be sitting on a literal goldmine.
A $1,000 investment in Nvidia 10 years ago would now be worth around $225,000. The closing price of Nvidia stock toward the end of 2015 was $0.80 a share, which has since shot up to $180.64 per share.
You also need to take dividends into account, meaning that $1,000 would now have climbed to up to $270,000.
Of course, those who dabble in the stock market might invest far more than $1,000, so just imagine if you'd taken $10,000 a decade ago and spun the wheel on Nvidia. Taking your $10,000 savings in 2015, you'd likely now be kicking back with a cool $2.57 million in 2025.
The discussion spilled over onto Reddit, where some reminded us that the stock market can be worryingly volatile. One person pointed to a Business Insider article on some of the biggest tech companies that went bust in the 2010s, highlighting the likes of Blockbuster, Palm, and Compaq all suffering their demise. There's also the fact that the likes of Intel have suffered massive losses in the past decade, proving that you never know how things are going to go.
As for those who missed out on investing, one downtrodden Redditor lamented: "Well I had 5k saved up in high school and wanted to put it in bitcoin and Nvidia but my parents told me it was a bad idea and wouldn’t let me. Still not over it."
Someone else quoted racing car driver Max Verstappen as they summarized: "You know, it's always, if if if, if my mum had balls she would be my dad. You know, that's how these things go."
