retail investor

“I think there is some evidence to suggest that easy to understand products generally tend to do better in terms of the retail crowd getting involved.”

“So they scare me. I think there's going to be some really great ones, but I think people are going to lose a ton of money, like, and just everyday people. Whenever there's so much money going around, and people think they can make a quick buck, and there's a l…”

“With GME, according to CNBC, retail was a net seller of GME Monday through Wednesday, which by the way is before Robinhood put in place the buying restriction. So Monday through Wednesday, as the stock was increasing, retail overall was net selling it.”

“I think most of the people who invest in there are incompetent and shouldn't be given dollars. This will definitely be taken out, no doubt. I think this is like, you know, you're empowering people who should not be investing. They do not understand public mark…”

“If we were to use knowledge as the metric for accreditation the accredited investors for ARC Would be those retail investors. They have, they are passionate about innovation, and they know so much about it, and many of them are working in the industry or in th…”

“A big part of the crypto VC game is doing these private token deals, and then you kind of build some prestige media narrative hype and then sell the token to retail, and then retail gets sucked in, and the VCs kind of dump tokens on retail. That's like a big G…”

“I think if you're like a leader in the space, I think shilling is, toxic. And there's a big, you know, crypto Twitter influencer culture of these people that are, you know, shilling loudly, dumping on retail, and that gives a bad experience to new people and a…”

“And so under the guise of protecting retail, we've arguably disenfranchised them a bit. We've made it harder to access advice. We've made it harder for them to access regulated markets and yet our user journey in the cryptocurrency world is incredibly straight…”

“I think this is cynical, ripping people off for 50 grand that don't know what they're getting themselves into.”

“To Terry's point, if Vanguard has 10 trillion, putting 10% of that into venture would move the needle, but I just don't think ordinary investors should be doing this stuff. I don't know. There's just I just, I, it's just part of greed. Too much greed.”

“This is a category. This is a trend that's going to happen. You know, I don't think it's going to be the same wall of money as, you know, sovereigns or pension funds. It's just another source of capital, another pick a number, 20% more.”

“The problem that's happened in private markets in general is The best companies have lots of options. They can raise money from anywhere. So they sort of like don't consider retail. They don't consider retail. And that leads to this adverse selection problem w…”

“The use case that's going to be very powerful even within the US where we actually have decent access through Robinhood and other things to US stocks is illiquid assets that Actually have not been successfully made tradable or accessible to retail like private…”

“So I fully expect That you will start seeing products that give retail access to the best companies in in technology, and we will definitely engage in that because it's the right thing to do.”

“Giving people access to SpaceX and Stripe, you're not gonna regret it. It'll, it'll do right by them. You'll feel proud of it. What you don't want to do is, Take retail and put it into you know, the bottom quartile of the venture capital funds that lose money …”

“I'm going to take this bet that it's going to trade up three X, In twenty-twenty-six, just based on GameStoppers driving it up.”