Throw in an investment in Apple when everyone started switching to Mac circa 2006 (I told everyone who would listen to buy it, but I was a college freshman, so no one listened, but it was so obvious), and you got a stew going.
It didn’t take anything fancy to crush the market if you started 20 years ago and were dialed into tech.
No it wouldn't. Sample size of one is not proof of consistently beating anything. If I showed you a winning lottery ticket, would you consider that as "more than enough evidence" of me consistently beating the lottery?
In 2006 I don't know that I would have thought Apple would have dominated the market as much as it has, but the iPhone hadn't been announced yet nor would it have 3G for another year after that. In 2007 I got my first phone with a front-facing VGA camera which could do video calls over 3G networks, before the iPhone had native apps or 3G.
But that is the most important point. The rest is trivial, but knowing which organization will be able to capitalize on it is the only relevant fact if you are trying to optimize for a return.
In 2006, the mobile network owners seemed in prime position to use their monopoly to squeeze everyone else, as well as Blackberry completely dominating the ecosystem.
In 2006, I do not know what kind of evidence a person would have had to KNOW apple, alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook would be where they are relative to ATT/Verizon/T-Mobile/Blackberry.
People don't like hearing that the market can be beat because they don't like feeling inadequate. But it can be beat if you understand industries and physics and consumer sentiment. Bonus if you can read financials, but even some basic market indicators are good enough.
In fact, they all still go to work for someone else.
Some people do have this ability and in fact have become very wealthy, but there are many orders of magnitude more people who think they have an edge but have just had a lucky run.
I didn't dispute the fact that the market can be beaten. There's overwhelming evidence for that (e.g. Renaissance, Berkshire). I didn't even dispute your claim that you have beaten the market. I merely asked for some evidence to back up that claim. The fact that you responded without providing any evidence makes me think you actually haven't beaten the market consistently. Perhaps you have had one or two good bets that provided spectacular returns.
