Are we comparing apples to apples or apples to oranges?

Would apple be where it is today if no one heard of Steve Jobs?

and when you menton hard money you mixing apples and oranges. 

The nomenclature lumps them all together and the many bad apples spoil it for the good ones.Capital raisers are very much the same. 

I’m based out in the High Desert, mainly around Victorville, Apple Valley, and Hesperia, so I can give you some first-hand perspective. 

I am available or I give them a number to call if I know I won't be available.I see this as a way to scare the bad apples into doing what they should have been doing all along.If your multiple time zones away or will not be available for certain guests, give them a number to someone who can be available. 

In my area gone are the days where someone throws down cringe worthy multicolor gray laminate, a questionable slab of granite with some barn doors and doubles their money.

Apple is a 31 P/E, to put it into context. 

Apple is tacking $100 billion of new investment onto the $500 billion it has already committed.

My advice to my 16-year old self would be:1 - Don't get married2 - Listen to the guy that told you to buy Apple in 2003.