Ben Thompson
speaker
42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Everything I just described to you may sound stupid and impossible.
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And you might totally be right.
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That's why this is an unbelievably risky investment.
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That's why, like, this is why the laws exist.
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Now, should the laws be changed to make it easier for retail to get into private companies?
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That's certainly a debate that can be had, particularly as the world is shifted to larger and larger companies staying private longer and longer.
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This isn't Microsoft going public at like a hundred million dollars or whatever it was, like and you could ride it all the way up.
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That's definitely a discussion to be had.
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But
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But the reason we have protections against retail investors getting into private companies is
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Is because you're likely to lose your money.
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Yeah.
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What if we create a company so audacious and large that we can give the public the opportunity to lose all their money without any regulations whatsoever?
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Um here we are.
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Here we are.
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So
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It's a very it's a very it's a very relevant question.
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I Blue Origin has landed boosters, like not suborbital, I believe, but they they've they've done it.
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China is obviously working on this.
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And to Adam's point, if the economic incentives get large enough, problems get solved, particularly if it's been demonstrated that they are solvable.
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