The line between investing and gambling is disappearing so fast that your brokerage statement should come with a 1-800-GAMBLER disclaimer… All signs indicate that gambling, I mean investing, is becoming available to an increasingly larger group of people (everyone???). Sure, it’s cloaked in fancy, uplifting prose: eliminate investor requirements...
There is a massive STRATEGIC MISCALCULATION in our industry. The predominant focus is on building the RAILS for the new digital market paradigm. And rails are very important. Even so, the much bigger opportunity (by multiples) is ACCESSING THE ISSUERS AND INVESTORS that will be UTILIZING those rails. Thus:...
Don’t believe the drivel you read about secondary platforms, tokenization, and 24/7 liquidity. When CONFIDENCE collapses, markets seize. Bid-ask spreads fill GALAXIES. Retail, whales, market makers all disappear. Because liquidity is often just a MARKETING ploy. It exists when you don’t need it and vanishes when you do. BUYERS,...
Trust in AI. Don’t trust AI.When AI is done with us TRUST will be the only thing left. I wrote an apparently controversial post last week stating that: “Because in a world of NOISE (and if you think the world is noisy now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet), TRUST...
Cold emails aren’t a hustle badge of honor. They’re a neon sign: “Nobody would INTRODUCE me.”You think you’re bold, dropping into inboxes uninvited. Investors don’t see bold. They don’t see you at all. No warm intro = not vouched. And when investors smell “not vouched,” they STOP reading. Because...
PUTTING BLOCKCHAIN ON A PIG…Is blockchain diverting from its foundational premise of DECENTRALIZATION? When blockchain was conceived, it promised a world free from centralized control – transparent, trustless, and decentralized. Yet today many marquee “blockchain” deployments look PRIVATE, permissioned, or controlled by INTERMEDIARIES: Great EXAMPLES: Is this PROGRESS or...
The SEC just filed a suit against UNREGISTERED brokers for selling unregistered securities and receiving transaction-based compensation. “JOY TO THE WORLD, all the boys and girls, now” This restores our faith in the system. It’s so great to see that the NEW SEC LEADERSHIP IS ENFORCING THE LAW –...
You say you want a DEVOLUTION…Well, you know, we all wanna change the world. Satire Alert… do not contact our CCO. Eliminate the Accredited Investor requirement? Why? Because it’s a free country, damn it. But why stop there?• Why can’t ANY person buy any stock (or token) from any...
To those who disagreed with the premise of my post last week (and many certainly did):BEST OF LUCK! Good luck with your STEALTH launches, your NDAs, your locked-down “secret sauce”… your walled-off investor decks, your carefully guarded ROADMAPS… and your obsession with HIDING instead of BUILDING. If you haven’t...
WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO SHARE OUR PLAYBOOK.Take it. Study it. Print it out. Tattoo it on your arm. Because here’s the truth: Ideas are cheap.Last week several people told me I was crazy for posting our detailed strategic plans.Don’t care. We’ve executed for 16 consecutive years and think...
