This could be bigger than artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, or even SpaceX.
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Build wealth without relying on luck
Have you ever dreamed of winning the lottery?
You see billboards or signs in stores advertising the size of the jackpot, and it’s easy to get lost in your imagination.
what if…?
Well, a 56-year-old Michigan man recently won a $1 million Powerball jackpot. This is not unusual except for the way he chose the numbers.
According to Michigan Lottery Connect, the winning numbers were generated by a Zoltar machine in Las Vegas 30 years ago. You’re probably familiar with these machines that have been sitting in arcades across the country for decades.
Credit: Kirk Fisher
The lucky lottery winner has used the same set of numbers for nearly three decades.
Zoltar finally paid off!
With his winnings, the Michigan man plans to pay off his house and car, take a vacation, and save for retirement. All things you might have thought about when you dreamed of winning the lottery.
Stories like this capture our imagination because they speak to something universal: the belief that life can change in an instant.
But while many people spend their lives, or at least 30 years of it, hoping for good luck, a small group of investors quietly build wealth differently.
Put yourself before the winners
Some investors are setting themselves up for major shifts before These transformations become clear to everyone.
This is how fortunes were made in:
- Early Internet
- Smartphones
- Digital payments
- Tesla
- Indeed – and increasingly – artificial intelligence
This may be happening again now – in the financial system itself.
One investor who thinks we may be approaching this kind of moment is our technology expert, Luke Lango, Editor Innovation investor. Locke spent much of his career studying revolutionary innovations before they became mainstream.
Long before AI became a household obsession, Locke was urging investors to pay attention to companies like Nvidia and Palantir.
Years earlier, he identified AMD as a big opportunity before the stock price rose thousands of percent.
His long-standing specialty has been identifying recurring patterns that can help build wealth.
A new technology comes out, and a lot of people ignore it early…
Then suddenly the world around him changes.
A good example of this is Luke’s recommendation Seagate Technology Holdings (STX). Here’s Luke’s description of STX when he recommended it in August 2024:
Seagate is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of data storage solutions.
The widespread deployment of AI applications over the next few years will require a significant build-out of high-performance data storage solutions, which means we are likely sitting on the cusp of a massive boom in the data storage market.
During the first six months after this selection, the stock moved mostly sideways.
But since then, the need for larger data storage solutions has become more urgent. And the early STX side piece?
As you can see below, it turned out to be the “tremendous prosperity” that Luke predicted.
Since Luke’s initial recommendation, the stock is now up about 800%.
Despite this return, the numbers indicate that there are more gains to come. Here’s Luke’s summary from STX’s last quarterly earnings report in late April:
A quarter of the beast from Seagate Technology (STX) strongly suggests that this AI memory boom cycle has legs and thus STX stock has a lot of upside.
Big win in Q3 + report raised. Courses +44%. Data Center Cycles +55%. Gross margins +11 points. Operating margin +14 points. Earnings per share +116%. Q4 guidance calls for 40%+ revenue growth and 90% EPS growth next quarter.
Artificial intelligence is driving a boom in demand for memory. And it shows no signs of slowing down. Management said they have exabyte-scale supply agreements with almost all major cloud and hyperscale customers, and close capacity is allocated almost entirely through calendar 2027, and discussions begin for 2028. These are not signs of AI sugar rising by a quarter, but rather a permanent surge in demand for AI memory.
Find the next winners
According to Locke, the next major shift may not focus on artificial intelligence, electric cars, or even space technology.
It may be about something much bigger and more important to every person, regardless of whether they invested a single dollar or not:
The system that moves the money itself.
Over the decades, the financial system has changed little.
We moved from cash to credit cards, and replaced bank branches with mobile applications…
But the basic system remained largely the same.
- The banks kept your money.
- Brokerage firms handled your investments.
- Payment companies transferred money between them.
And now, according to Luke, this entire structure may be on the verge of a massive transformation.
And one of the people doing everything they can to reshape it is one of the greatest technology and financial minds of our time, Elon Musk.
People think Musk is the guy behind Tesla or SpaceX or artificial intelligence.
But Locke thinks Musk’s most ambitious project yet might involve something bigger:
Reconstructing the way money moves through the economy itself.
It’s a vision Musk has reportedly followed for decades. A system that could ultimately combine payments, banking, investment and digital commerce into a single financial ecosystem.
If Locke is right, the companies at the center of this transformation could see huge gains as the trend accelerates.
That’s why Luke recently released a special presentation to explain:
- Why does he believe the financial system is entering a historic turning point?
- How does Elon Musk fit into the story?
- And which stocks he thinks could benefit the most if this shift happens the way he expects.
Because while some people spend decades waiting for the right lottery numbers…
Others build their fortunes by realizing where the world is headed before everyone else does.
You can watch Luke’s full presentation here.
Enjoy your weekend,
Luis Hernandez
Editor-in-Chief, InvestorPlace
