NFL legend Rob Gronkowski’s best-ever investment: $69,000 worth of Apple stock

NFL legend Rob Gronkowski bought $69,000 worth of Apple stock on advice from his contractor. Then he forgot about it for more than two years.

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00:00Would go with I bought my first stock ever was the Apple stock the guy actually who built my house in Foxboro

00:07He told me hey buy Apple stock. I'm telling you that's where it's at

00:11You know, I never been involved in stocks and really didn't know how stocks worked

00:14So I was like, alright, let me let me do this man. And I was like I I'm gonna go big

00:19I'm gonna do obviously this just fits along the lines of just me being myself. I'm gonna put

00:26$69,000 in the Apple stock and this was like

00:302014 so I call up my financial advisor my put

00:33$69,000 in an Apple, you know of my own money with no advice like this is just from the guy who built my house

00:40You know here here in the New England area. So then all of a sudden I forgot about it

00:44It's like two and a half years later and the stock is worth like

00:50$250,000 so I sell off the portion of the

00:54$69,000 I bought in and I have now to this date. I have over

00:59$600,000 in Apple stock all because of the investment I made in

01:052014 having no idea what I was doing, but just listening to the to the guy that to the

01:11To the to the man that built my house here in New England, so I appreciate that