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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 5

    It’s a little disconcerting to realize: a. How much of the economic growth in the US is happening inside of tech companies b. How little exposure the average person has to invest in those tech companies as IPOs remain rare

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      2. Adam Singer‏Verified account @AdamSinger Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Seriously? You could have crushed it owning any of the big tech firms last few years. Or Tesla. Or whatever brand you wanted. Markets are fuego bud. What private company do you wish you could own most of those startups fail anyway nor would have a bid in public markets so early.

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 5
        Replying to @AdamSinger

        Ya but think about what the market would be like overall if it had more of the tech cos in it

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      4. Adam Singer‏Verified account @AdamSinger Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I agree would love to see more things public sooner. But tech stuff that is public has been leading this market. Ask @alex who for 3 years has done +100% a year basically just owning mid cap public saas. He's for sure outperformed most VCs. Crazy.

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      5. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 5
        Replying to @AdamSinger @alex

        Surprised there’s not more happening around that. Economics of SAAS should be relatively predictable at this point.

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      6. Adam Singer‏Verified account @AdamSinger Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred @alex

        Yeah. think tech is mature, good and predictable investments. That's positive thing. Good news here is there are other sectors that still IPO pre-revenue! Biotech you can frequently own shares of at very reasonable valuations @ IPO. The ones that work out have huge upside.

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      2. Dennis Wingo‏ @wingod Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        There are ways to do this. A Roth IRA at Vanguard for example lets you do it with very little money... You can trade public stocks with as little as $100 with some of these other companies. I do understand about investing in startups and that was supposed to be fixed but isn't

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 5
        Replying to @wingod

        The problem is startups aren’t going public

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      4. Zachary‏ @ZacScottThomas Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred @wingod

        The company ‘Equidate’ tried to tackle this situation. But the business model ends up targeting Institutional Investors, Funds, and Family Offices.https://equidateinc.com 

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      5. Dennis Wingo‏ @wingod Aug 5
        Replying to @ZacScottThomas @AustenAllred

        There is (or was) a company in SF doing something similar. They founded LLC's and the members of the LLC contributed funds that were then used to invest startups. Don't know what happened to them, but the idea seemed sound, also made target company governance easier.

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      1. Allison Barr Allen‏ @abarrallen Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        The broad stock market as-is, is a great investment. However most people are totally unaware how to invest. Please encourage your students to invest at least 10% of each paycheck in an index fund!

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      1. Calvin Chu‏ @radicalvin Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        @joinrepublic THIS!

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      2. "Alexa, enable FPPad"‏ @BillWinterberg Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I've thought about this, too. Pros: retail investors are insulated from companies that fail spectacularly in their early years (e.g. Theranos). Cons: retail investors have fewer opportunities to participate in rapid growth/price appreciation of young companies

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      3. "Alexa, enable FPPad"‏ @BillWinterberg Aug 5
        Replying to @BillWinterberg @AustenAllred

        Also, is it possible the reduction in total public companies traded on exchanges and fewer IPOs is correlated to the historic lows in stock market volatility? Much of the volatility may be taking place in private markets not available to retail investors (and also not measured).

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      1. MARC EGLON‏ @MarcEglon Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        And those that do raise through open rounds in say Angellist syndicates are reserved for accredited investors.

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      1. Tristan Homsi‏ @homsiT Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I'd suspect that the vast majority (absolute $) of tech growth over the past decade has been the $2T+ growth of FAANG public mcaps. The average person is missing out on startups sure, but even then they're getting those through e.g their pension funds -> VCs -> startups

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      1. Joseph Andelin‏ @josephandelin Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        c. how little productivity is increasing with all the tech promises.

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      1. Ruben Harris‏Verified account @rubenharris Aug 5
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        Preach bro cc @brandontalk @will_lucas

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      1. Ryan M.J. Burke‏ @ryanmatthewb Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        And the ones that do IPO are doing so very late, with many private rounds along the way

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      1. Jacob Kostecki‏ @kubakostecki Aug 6
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        We used to outsource our health to doctors, our education to teachers, our money to brokers etc. More recently, a lot of people are reigning that in and taking personal responsibility of life, working w/experts but not relying on them. Same idea applies to exposure to tech...

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      1. Nemoy Rau‏ @NRaush Aug 5
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        But technically... That's why you have accredited investors (salary + assets minimum thresholds). They won't take that big of a hit if they invest as a part of an early round if they go for 8 more rounds later before a "possible" exit.

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