A better analogy might be buying stock in a technology startup which is making a product completely unlike anything on the market now.
I think this is also a dangerous example because most of the salient and readily-available examples of doing this are the highly-publicized successes (this might be less true for people who are actually actively involved in technology investment—I say this from the perspective of an outsider).
I think this is also a dangerous example because most of the salient and readily-available examples of doing this are the highly-publicized successes (this might be less true for people who are actually actively involved in technology investment—I say this from the perspective of an outsider).