Alec Renehan

And I expect in four years time, we'll be saying the same thing.

No, it's been incredible.

I mean, the biggest lesson for me is we got into a medium early and the rising tide lifting all boats has helped all of us.

And you can see that more recently with TikTok.

You see influencers that were...

early on TikTok.

And as more users have jumped on, it's again, just that rising tide lifting all boats.

And, you know, if we ever sell equity mates or if Bryce decides he's sick of me and wants to quit or anything like that, I think whatever I try and start next, you got to try and skate where the puck is going because, um,

Bryce and I were in supermarket retail that consistently grinds out 3% growth year on year, and you compare that experience to the experience of being in an industry that's growing at such a fast rate, and it's just chalk and cheese.

Yeah.

So, I mean, I was wrong about a lot of things in the early days of investing.

And I think a pretty vanilla one, but I think a really important one for beginner investors.

When I started investing, I thought you had to buy individual companies.

And the famous Slater and Gordon story was really where it started for me.

And that was because I just didn't know about index funds or ETFs.

You know, the four of us sitting here on this podcast, you know, we all know about ETFs, we know about index funds, and we talk about them all the time.

But so many people that I speak to that don't, you know, that don't listen to investing podcasts or make investing podcasts for a living just aren't aware that you don't have to make that decision, that you can just buy a little bit of everything.

And I think it's just such a good way to start.

For me, looking back at that Slater and Gordon purchase, if I just bought some S&P 500 ETF and held it from 2014, 2015 to now, I would be very happy with myself.

And so for me, that's a really vanilla one, a really simple one, but I think a really important one for people that are daunted by the