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I forgot - I wouldn't do Alphabet. I don't like their passing acquaintance with privacy, and basically all they do is sell ads when it comes to actual revenue that keeps them actually afloat. Same with Facebook (Meta is a silly name and a distraction) - maybe more so on revenue from ads. Lots of companies sell ads. It isn't a big moat industry. In a parallel earth, Myspace is #1...in another parallel earth, Yahoo is #1. I'm not interested in picking the winner in this space some years from now.
The privacy bit is big. I don't use Google, except on rare occasions. Functional, privacy-aware alternatives like duckduckgo, and proton mail, are gaining traction. You'll find many privacy and cybersecurity types use these also.
My wife can handle investing just fine. She made a huge gain, I think a 15 bagger, in Eli Lilly, and has been the source of many of our great decisions, and was investing when stocks were trading in fractions also. I'm glad we met (and glad it was a little later; she wouldn't have dug me in my 20s!).
If my wife was not investing inclined, I would be looking at some sort of structured trust and indices, and not be doing this experiment.
