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Last Friday, before I took off for the weekend, my friend Aitio dropped by the office.

He stops by a few times a year just to say hello.

He wasn’t exactly in our neighborhood, which is in downtown Manhattan on the water. But with his 2023 Tesla Model S Plaid (0-60 MPH in 2 seconds), he doesn’t mind traveling.

Aitio used to be a general contractor in Queens and he made a good living. So he started putting some money to work in bars and clubs. But in 2007, he decided to invest in tech startups instead.

He had some small wins over the years as an angel investor. A single here and a double there.

But a few years ago, he hit a homerun.

Now he’ll never have to work again.

A Simple But Brilliant Investment Philosophy

When we started Crowdability back in 2014, we asked Aitio to describe his investment philosophy — and we’ll never forget his reaction:

He paused to think, stroked his well-groomed goatee, then broke into a smile.

“All it takes is one,” he said.

And that’s where he got his nickname:

A.I.T.I.O: All It Takes Is One.

Average vs. Above Average

To decipher Aitio’s philosophy, let’s review the numbers behind startup investing.

According to Cambridge Analytics (an advisor to institutions like The Rockefeller Foundation and Harvard University), investing in startups has returned an average of 55% per year over 25 years.

यह हर दो साल में आपका पैसा दोगुना करने के लिए पर्याप्त है।

But remember, that’s just the औसत. Plenty of folks — people we know and work with — have done far better than average.

For example, consider our business partner Howard Lindzon. Howard’s annual returns have been measured in the “hundreds of percent.”

तीन अंकों वाला वार्षिक रिटर्न अर्जित करने का रहस्य क्या है?

Let Aitio give you a hint:

All it takes is one.

You’ve Seen the Evidence

Long-time Crowdability readers will recognize our familiar stories about investors who’ve hit it big on a single investment.

Howard’s investment in Uber, for example…

For every $5,000 he invested, he got back $2 million a few years later. That’s 400 times his money.

Then there’s Paul Graham, another startup investor. On his investment in a web service called Heroku, he earned 491 times his money.

And when he invested in Twitch, a video-game company, he earned an estimated 573 times his money.

All It Takes Is One

और यहाँ बात है:

Even if you make dozens of startup investments and all of them go to zero — well, all of them except एक...

You could still make a fortune.

Because all it takes is one.

रिटायर होने के लिए काफी है

मान लीजिए कि आप अगले कुछ वर्षों में 50 स्टार्टअप में निवेश करते हैं।

आप $1,000 के कुल निवेश के लिए प्रत्येक में $50,000 डालते हैं।

Based on the historical odds, it’s likely you’ll get a handful of “base hits” — enough hits to get you to the 55% annual returns we mentioned earlier.

But even if 49 of the companies go belly up — in other words, even if your first 49 investments literally go to zero…

As long as the 50th कंपनी "एक उबेर" बन गई है - वह निवेश जहां हावर्ड ने 400 गुना पैसा कमाया - आपका $1,000 का निवेश $400,000 के बराबर होगा।

तो आपका $50,000 का स्टार्टअप पोर्टफोलियो $400,000 में बदल जाएगा।

यह 700% शुद्ध रिटर्न है।

और क्या होगा यदि आपने इसके बदले प्रत्येक स्टार्टअप में $5,000 का निवेश किया हो?

आपकी हिस्सेदारी का मूल्य $2 मिलियन होगा।

अधिकांश लोगों के लिए, यह रिटायर होने के लिए पर्याप्त पैसा है।

तथा कि is what’s so exciting about startup investing:

All it takes is one investment to change your life.

मुबारक निवेश

सादर,