Sometimes in life youre at a point where you cant afford to wait for the long money to come through cause you need cake now. That $800 probably put food on his table and kept a roof over his head for a month. Its easy to look at it now and see that 800 would become billions but everyone here has had a bunch of money they could have put into better ventures.Every company has people like this,they wouldn't have been billionaires,maybe millionaires. How many people touch their 401k for things that are important at the time?
He shouldve went back though after seeing that apple was on the upswing though.