NFL star Rob Gronkowski wanted to ‘go big' with his first investment at age 25: Now his Apple stock is worth more than $600,000Rob Gronkowski has four Super Bowl rings to his name, but one of his biggest wins came off the field.this week, Gronkowski revealed that he benefitted from a piece of investing advice that helped him make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"I'd never been involved in stocks. I really didn't know how stocks worked," he said."So I was like, 'Alright, let me do this. I'm going to go big.'"from the NFL, called up his financial adviser and directed them to purchase $69,000 worth of shares of the iPhone maker. "To this date, I have over $600,000 of Apple stock, all because of the investment I made in 2014, having no idea what I was doing but just listening to the man who built my house here in New England," he said.— the company's stock is up more than 1,000% since 2014 — Gronkowski didn't need the financial assist. The Super Bowl champion famously refused to spend his NFL paychecks, choosing instead to live off of his endorsement money.
"The whole point of saving throughout my NFL career was to be set for after football because you don't know how long football will last,"