What would you do with $30K right now?

Several related threads out there but trying to vet the forum for some creative ideas on how to use this amount to BUILD wealth.

Obvious start would be to pay off debt and max out retirement accts. 

 
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Tech companies (who don't need immediate cash injection) are tired of the conventional IPO process - a lot is left on the table for founders.

Chamath is extremely qualified in the tech space, makes sense founders would want him to bring them public over other "hardcore finance" types in my opinon.

SoFi is going to completely change the game over time, look at the US commercial banking sector compared to them - dinosaurs in the age where tech savvy millenials are providing that debt servicing cash flow.

Go to Chamath's twitter and check out the annoucement last Thursday. Nice one pager together outlining the deal.

*Disclaimer: I am in no way qualified to provide any financial advice, please do your own research. Also disclosing that I am long, so biased lol

 

I agree with the crypto investment, I actually did this same thing back in the spring with my entire net worth and am up close to 100k. But putting it in a penny stock or random token is retarded. Go 90% bitcoin, 10% ethereum and let it ride. 

 
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I agree with the crypto investment, I actually did this same thing back in the spring with my entire net worth and am up close to 100k. But putting it in a penny stock or random token is retarded. Go 90% bitcoin, 10% ethereum and let it ride. 

imagine thinking that putting your entire net worth into the 'safe' crypto is a less retarded 'investment' than putting your entire net worth into the 'random' crypto

 

Stellar Lumens XLM is a penny stock ... was 5 cents a few months back, and just won a major contract with government of Ukraine, and sits around 30 cents. Lots of potential, similarly other penny cryptos ... TRX ADA etc. Your logic makes no sense. Highest return comes from the underdog early stage projects, and like I said if you can live without and want a disproportionately high reward to risk ratio (and can live with it going to zero but uncapped upside) ... that's my bet. I've bought $20k penny stocks and looking to buy another $30-50k hopefully in the next few weeks before the major institutional players come on board. Plus, working in PE means this is the only "stock market" like investment you can probably only make, which makes it quite exciting as a side hobby. Recommend checking with your compliance team before doing so. Your call, this is not financial advice ...

 

Stupid crypto and penny stock gambling aside, if one is actually looking for a reliable investment I would use my first time home buyer credit and get a multifamily house with like 3% down using the $30k, live in one unit and rent the rest out to cover my mortgage and even make some extra profit. You could buy a ~$1m property with a $30,000 down with first time home buyer credit (for simplicity ignoring the extra fees although those are material and worth considering) and in low cost markets you can definitely get a 3-4 family property for that. Note 4 unit is the max size so if you buy like a strip of townhomes for $2mil you'll need the 20% to put down on that bad boy.

 

I'd buy as many GME shares as possible and hold like my life depends on it. Join the crew m8ty, we're robbing some soyboi shortsellers for dinner. The booty has just begun. Anyone telling you to put it into some lame ETF has no balls or is a boomer.

"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly" - Robert A. Wilson | "If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

Hey man, I don't have compliance issues to worry about so this was just my answer to what I'd do with $30k. I'm in it for the long haul because I've met Ryan Cohen once and have been in awe of what he did with Chewy starting from nothing with a business model everyone assumed would fail. Given he, and both the CFO & CMO from Chewy are now heading up the board I think there's a huge turnaround to look forward to. I'm already in for about as much as you mentioned and it's been a very good week, but I won't be looking to start profit taking until after Q4 earnings at the earliest.

"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly" - Robert A. Wilson | "If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

My body is ready, if this keeps up I might get myself a Porche 911 as an early Christmas gift.

"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly" - Robert A. Wilson | "If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

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