That is what happened with Qualcomm. It was thje summer of 1985 doing some sailing aboard my "cloud nine" and a friend from Stanford's electrical engineering depatment said guys watch this stock. Another friend aboard bought 500 shares at $8.00 per. In 2008 he had -because of many splits- 45,000 shares of Qualcomm that was valued at $12mil and gave $4mil. to my university to establish the "emerging sciences" chair in his name. He passed away in 2010. May this stock do the same.