Let the start-up PM's who get all in aww over a portfolio run themself bankrupt trying to service Mein Fueler, because you know that's what's going to happen. 

So it is a good long term bet (provided the socialists do not bankrupt you first).

He was over-leveraged, the rules changed, and he went from a multi-millionaire to bankrupt in a matter of months.Wise investors work hard, save up, and put skin in the game.

This quote - I can't really see what I can learn by visiting the market that I can't learn from an agent" - will literally bankrupt you.

HAHA I was 100% wrong with COVID and Bitcoin as well (I was correct about NFT's though).I also thought Tesla and Facebook would go bankrupt and never make any money. 

I agree with AliceVacasa is about to be bankrupt and they have massive client as well as employee turnover. 

But if you to a more wise and slow approach, you can find other ways to generate additional income, build up a 25% DP on a duplex that cash flows after all expenses and you have an EF fund, well you will sleep better at night and the odds that your investment will survive the tough times in your life is far greater then someone who sleep well at night with tons of debt who if anything should go wrong, which it does in life that person may be bankrupt. 

They ended up bankrupt and foreclosed on and I moved somewhere else. 14 years later my lot in a town where building had boomed, housing prices were up about 40% and there was solid population growth had gone from being worth $28,500 to being sold for $19,000.

If we invest to 10 companies, maybe 8 would go bankrupt, but two would make the return (hopefully) more than initial investment.

Co-Op went bankrupt, buyers sued.