And before that he had his “four horsemen”: https://www.barrons.com/articles/BL-TB-5933

(Note this article is from Jan of 2008): > In today's trading, all four stocks are down steeply: Apple: Down $26.65, or 17.1%, to $128.99. Amazon: Down $7.56, or 9.6%, to $70.92. Google: Down $48.15, or 8.2%, to $536.20. Research In Motion: Down $8.47, or 9.4%, to $81.61.

Even writing off RIMM to zero would give you a healthy return through 2021.

Is that accounting for splits? Apple (for example) has split 28:1 since that time, making the equivalent price today around 4K/share.

He was quoting the article, but he messed up the formatting so it’s not very obvious that “today” refers to 13 years ago.