What if we measured true success not by the amount of money you have but by the amount of human energy you unlock, the amount of potential you enable? If that were our metric, our world would be a different place.
We’ve come a long way since the first joint-stock companies: now there’s proper accounting and reporting, tough regulations designed to protect and empower investors, and ever better technology for processing information and communicating with shareholders.
I predict we will see a multi-billion dollar company in the 2020s that was seeded with crowdfunding capital. This is a massive shift away from restrictive accredited investor laws.