Geron Corp (GERN)

[Joda]

Yup me too man...

It may be I lose all what I have invested in here, I can live with that. It will hurt big time, but I can make up for it with time...

But the opposite I could not live with.

We are at a new start of a new science. There was no way I could live with myself if Geron does make it and I didn't hold.

I would be regretting it my whole life.

I spent some time in the finance industry, specifically commercial credit. My direct report was a fund manager before his breakdown, (his wife died)...
This job as my boss in comm credit was considered taking it easy for this guy...

He was high income in his previous life, was a fund manager, ran a 300M fund, but that was over 30 years ago, so adjust for inflation...

He owned Microsoft personally and in his fund. Apparently they could do that.

I know his story very very well, because there was not a week that went by that I did not hear at least one regret of his Microsoft mistake.

In the days he was referring to, the market was choppy. If your stock made money, you grabbed your gains before they disappeared.

he made a double with Microsoft personally, the fund's holdings were sold off at points before it got to double...

He told me (many times) that there was no way he could stand to look like a fool if he was to hold onto his MS.

But fast forward 30 years, and not a week went by, when I didn't hear that complaint..."even if I just would held a little of what I had, I would be retired today, actually I'd be loaded"

So maybe I am just conditioned by working with an extremely intelligent and capable man tell me about one of his greatest regrets so many times over the 7 years we worked together, I don't know...

But if Geron's science and execution work to shareholders favor, then Geron is, in my opinion, like the next Microsoft.

I believe the next tech that will be the rage will be bio and not electronic, with the aging of the boomers...

So if this is the place and the time, I am not leaving. Actually I'm grabbing a chair at the table so if there is a feast to be had, I will be there to have it...