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John Stepek

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1100 total appearances

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Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

Yeah, it's also got SpaceX and I think it's got a bit of Anthropic as well and Stripe.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

A lot of the interesting ones that are about to go public at some point.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

The point is, there's kind of a sense that they're all going, oh, we need to get in here before all the money's gone.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

Aye, and you do wonder, it's like, well, this is kind...

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

This is, again, classic top-of-the-market behaviour.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

You know, you kind of hesitate to say it because you don't want people to say, OK, better I'll go to cash and then everything just keeps going up.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

But the point is, if you did look back in like five years' time and say, oh yeah, that was the top of the market because everyone was rushing to get out fast before things tipped over.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

So this is sort of like classic top-of-the-market behaviour.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

I mean, a lot of these people clearly, they've been sitting on millions and millions of dollars.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

And certainly if it was me and I was like employee number, whatever, 12 at SpaceX, I've been sitting there on generational wealth and I'm about to have the chance to get out.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

I'm not, you know, I'm not going to carry on staying there.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

As soon as that lockup is done, I'm pressing sell on my, you know, Hargreaves Lansdowne account or whatever.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

I think there's quite a few different stages.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

I mean, like Elon Musk, I don't think, obviously, I think he's basically got to keep his for a long time.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

But I think that it's six months for most of the other lockups.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

And then I think there's also, there's like family and friends who I don't think have got any lockup at all.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

I need to kind of read around it a bit more closely.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

But there's definitely, there's going to be dribs and drabs of this hitting the market for a prolonged period, certainly.

Merryn Talks Money
SpaceX Emergency Podcast: FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy

I don't like to sensationalize these things.