🏛️ Atkins SEC loosens accredited-investor gating and retail money reaches private markets

Jason politics-market w=1.00 · n=62 · E206 (2024-12-07) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 39:08 SUPPORT

“I mean, there's such an easy solution to this. You just do a sophistication test. People take a five-hour course and they answer 50 questions. The end, like a driver's license”

Joe Lonsdale (regular guest ×1.0) politics-market w=1.00 · n=5 · E206 (2024-12-07) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 36:55 SUPPORT

“Imagine if Elon could raise for SpaceX from regular Americans. I'm sure he would have loved to do that if it wasn't crazy risky with the SEC”

Friedberg politics-market w=0.84 · n=74 · E206 (2024-12-07) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 37:23 OPPOSE

“In fact, I think it's more likely than not that people are going to go market bullsh** securities and private markets and rip poor people off even worse”

Gavin Baker (regular guest ×1.0) politics-market w=1.50 · n=5 · E206 (2024-12-07) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 38:17 OPPOSE

“And I do think if you were to allow ordinary Americans to buy private companies that are held to a lower standard of disclosure and reporting to public companies, like something would have to change”

Jason politics-market w=1.00 · n=62 · E217 (2025-03-01) · sentiment · strength 3 ▶ 1:01:54 SUPPORT

“So all I'm arguing for is more education and a path for those people who want to do it, to show five hours of education, 50 questions, that they have an above average knowledge of how private companies work, just so they have the choice to do that.”

Friedberg politics-market w=0.84 · n=74 · E217 (2025-03-01) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 1:03:27 OPPOSE

“I would want to invest in everything. I'm not disagreeing with the notion. I'm pointing out what will happen, which is predatory a*****s will show up and they'll rip people off. That's what happens in every one of these f*****g markets.”

Chamath politics-market w=1.02 · n=96 · E217 (2025-03-01) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 1:05:45 OPPOSE

“I think what's gonna happen is not much of anything. I think the rules are gonna stay exactly where they are.”

Philippe Laffont (guest ×0.5) no politics-market track record · E227 (2025-05-09) · positioning · strength 3 ▶ 1:17:55 SUPPORT

“these interval funds are really interesting because I think the minimum investment is like $50,000 or something like that. And the conditions to qualify for such a fund are much smaller. So there's many more investors that can come. And I look at it a little bit of like, this is the democratization of tech investing.”

Jason politics-market w=1.00 · n=62 · E227 (2025-05-09) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 1:10:04 SUPPORT

“Yeah, it's retail investors and sovereign wealth funds outside the US seem to be the answer to that question.”

Chamath politics-market w=1.02 · n=96 · E227 (2025-05-09) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 1:29:19 SUPPORT

“The optimal basket of the companies you'd want to own for the future, because of these rules and regulatory burdens, are partially public, partially private, and so you need a vehicle that can straddle both if you want to own it.”