It was probably well worth it in the early days. Now they have a bunch of different people trying to pick the next nvidia and trying to create content for the subscribers. 

grayruby

I have friends who paid for those subs and thought they had found the holy grail. 

siggy47

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Motley Fool rode of a wave of digitization and just had the wherewithal to never sell their winners. This allowed them to have absolutely massive gains in Amazon, Netflix, Nvidia etc and have sold subs off of that for the last 20 years. 