I mean, while I feel his pain and understand the compulsion to look at it like he threw away $4.8M, at the point he realized what he'd done, it was worth about

I mean, while I feel his pain and understand the compulsion to look at it like he threw away $4.8M, at the point he realized what he'd done, it was worth about $4k. He could have bought them back for $4k at that point, and the lost $4k would be a rounding error. He even mentions he might have sold it at that point because he could have used the extra $4k. It's really no different than any other situation where you had a potential gain you passed on. If I'd put all my savings into TSLA @ ~ $25 in '11, I'd have an 1100% return. But I didn't.