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Update: I saved a 2016 screenshot of a Reddit post calling a tiny tax software startup a scam, and now it's worth $9 billion
I was cleaning out an old laptop last week and found a screenshot from 2016 of a Reddit thread where some guy was dunking on this little tax filing company, saying it was a scam and would never last. The top comment had 400 points calling the founder a clown. I kept it at the time just because I liked the drama, not because I thought anything would come of it. Fast forward to last month, that same company got valued at $9 billion, and I'm sitting here staring at my old screenshot feeling dumb for not buying in. Has anyone else kept old screenshots like this and actually made money off them later?
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the_robin12d ago
The "top comment had 400 points calling the founder a clown" part is what gets me. I read a piece in the Times a while back about how Reddit threads from years ago have basically become a graveyard of bad takes. There was this whole thing about a guy who saved posts mocking Tesla and Bitcoin, and now he just frames them for fun. The screenshots don't pay the bills, but they do show how wrong a crowd can be.
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