Chapter 135: Dotcom Bubble (3)
Even I sometimes find it hard to believe, but I’m a major shareholder with a significant stake in Microsoft.
Honestly, not buying it would’ve been strange. Wasn’t there a claim that if Bill Gates hadn’t sold off some of his shares, his net worth would have exceeded a quadrillion won by simple calculation?
‘Of course, that’s a completely unrealistic assumption...’
But really, instead of shorting stocks or borrowing money from here and there to start a business, just owning one solid stock is a far wiser investment.
It takes less time, and in the meantime, you can do other things. Just let other geniuses work their magic and raise the stock price, while you, the shareholder, reap the rewards for simply putting up the initial capital.
...The only problem is that I happen to be one of those sucker “geniuses.”
***
Was it a few months ago? I remember hearing something at the Windows Korea branch.
“Hngh, Windows 95 is great. Really, it’s great... but this thing crashes into a blue screen way too often.”
Hearing the familiar name, I nodded. I knew all too well about Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death.
‘I got hit by that plenty back in the day.’
In my previous life, I was an orphan, so I grew up quite removed from cutting-edge tech. Most school computers back then ran either 95 or 98, if you were lucky.