Big winners often are able to resist those mean-reversion trends for a very, very long period of time. So it's not any hard and fast rules here. I would definitely feel safe with the conclusion that many of these stocks traded expensive for good chunks of their history. But as you mentioned, there are certainly lots of companies that were unprofitable at first. If you were correct, he really got paid pretty well.

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