How would an investor react if the company they bought shares of went bankrupt?

Let's find out.

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I'm Chris Hill and just like yesterday's episode with Jason Moser today, we've got the

investing origin story with Motley Fool's Senior Analyst Matt Argersinger.

And yes, the first stock he ever bought shares of was a company that went bankrupt just

three years later.

We'll get to that in a minute, but I started the conversation by asking him, who was the

first person to really start him on his investing journey?

My dad was a little bit of an investor.

He was in the army.

But I remember we got the Wall Street Journal at home and I can't remember when, but I

remember at some point I was probably seven or eight years old.

And you just look at, you flip through the Wall Street Journal back in the day when they

had pages and pages of stock tickers.

And you kind of just sort of like, what is going on here?

Why are the numbers moving around every day plus minus fractional?

I mean, it was all fractional back then.

I think I just got kind of intrigued by the idea that you could invest in these numbers.

But there were companies, these symbols, right?

And then the next day you could have more money.

And I think that was fascinating to me.

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