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My $3.5 Million Netflix Mistake

Nineteen years ago I made the smartest investment of my life, followed a few months later by my dumbest decision.

My $3.5 Million Netflix Mistake

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You've probably heard of it.</li>\n <li>I sold 80% of my position a couple of months later for thousands of dollars. It's worth millions of dollars now.</li>\n <li>Selling always feels right, and almost comes as a relief. The real pain follows when you sold too soon on a wealth-altering investment.</li>\n</ul>\n<p></p>\n<p>My biggest investing success story also happens to be my biggest investing failure. It was 19 years ago -- to the day -- that&nbsp;I wrote about changing my tune&nbsp;on&nbsp;<b>Netflix</b>(NASDAQ:NFLX). I had gone from skeptic of the DVDs-by-mail rental platform after its springtime IPO earlier that year to a believer. I was a subscriber. I was a new investor.</p>\n<p>Anyone that read that piece and followed me into what was a broken IPO of an early stage disruptor is sitting pretty right now. The stock is roughly a 1,180-bagger in that time. That's not a typo.</p>\n<p>I fared even better, having bought closer to the bottom a few days earlier. 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The real pain follows when you sold too soon on a wealth-altering investment.\n\n\nMy biggest investing success story also happens to be my biggest investing failure. It was 19 years ago -- to the day -- that I wrote about changing my tune on Netflix(NASDAQ:NFLX). I had gone from skeptic of the DVDs-by-mail rental platform after its springtime IPO earlier that year to a believer. I was a subscriber. I was a new investor.\nAnyone that read that piece and followed me into what was a broken IPO of an early stage disruptor is sitting pretty right now. The stock is roughly a 1,180-bagger in that time. That's not a typo.\nI fared even better, having bought closer to the bottom a few days earlier. I picked up 500 shares for roughly $2,600. I would then make the wealth-altering mistake of selling most of my shares a few months later. Selling 80% of my Netflix stock at a modest gain felt pretty good at the time. I didn't realize that I would be leaving millions on the table as I walked away.\nIMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.\nSelling is the hardest part\nThe math is cruel. See, those 500 shares would be 7,000 shares today after a pair of stock splits over those 19 years. Selling all but 20% of that position is a story that gets uglier over time. When I initially wrote about my terrible decision back in 2015, it was a $505,845 mistake, as that was the value of the 80% stake that I thought I was so smart for unloading ages ago.\nRevisiting my tale of woe seems to be like a running cab meter. The 80% stake I sold in early 2003 would be worth $802,179 in late 2016, $884,709 by March 2017, and $2.8 million last summer. It would top $3.5 million as of Wednesday's close.\nThe good news would normally be that the other 20% is a pretty good consolation prize. Unfortunately, I didn't heed my own advice. 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