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Starbucks canceled their annual meeting of shareholders over coronavirus concerns.
"Why did they tell you?"

One great piece of capitalist magic: all shareholders are shareholders.

"Why are you a shareholder?"

Symbolic (3 shares). I spend a stupefying amount of money on their iced coffee and I wanted to own part of the enterprise.
(I broadly think that people who aren't investment professionals should probably not make single-stock investments and should just index, but I have about 25% of my money in individual stocks largely because I am still the guy who ran a WoW raid guild and this calms the urges.)
"Which ones?"

Most prominently, and you're going to laugh, I put the first $2,000 of bingo profits into Chipotle back in 2006/2007, which worked out "rather well."

I sold a bit when it became worth more than the business which had funded the investment.
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