Ben McKenzie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
At that moment, tears.
Tears, right?
Because you're feeling it that moment.
You know, I really hope it comes out tomorrow.
It's like ominous.
Fingers crossed.
So a lot of emotions.
But I was like looking for the next thing.
And I started looking at the financial markets because I never really paid attention to them.
Even though I had an econ degree, I was really conservative with my money.
Real estate, index funds.
I know enough that I don't know that much.
My buddy Dave comes to me.
And I've known Dave since UVA.
But Dave had been one exception to my conservative investing because he had come to me and said, in the mid-aughts, he was like living in my guest house as I was shooting the OC.
He was like, dude, you got to buy stock in this company.
This like obscure company that I had never heard of.
He had found out from a dude at a wedding.
From dude at a wedding.
Yeah, exactly.