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You could have been investing in Nvidia the whole time.

Decision inertia means that employees often don't sell vested stock, and end up being lucky. Similarly, external investors aren't willing to put 30-50% of their networth into one bet and therefore miss out on the kind of luck that can set them up for life.

There is nothing that a lowly engineer at Tesla or Nvidia knows, that can't be found out by an external investor. They are operating in the same information landscape, but different outcomes when they give into decision inertia.

It's not about joining Tesla or Nvidia early. It's about betting on them.



> It's not about joining Tesla or Nvidia early. It's about betting on them.

It's also possible to bet on Tesla/Nvidia and lose. Badly.


Exactly. every Nvidia/Tesla employee who became a millionaire recently CHOSE to hold onto their stocks after the vesting period.

That was a bet.

If they hadn't made the bet and sold stocks as soon as they vested, then the returns wouldn't have been as incredible.




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