Fundrise CEO Ben Miller names pet longevity startup Loyal as the most underrated company in Fundrise's venture portfolio.
Opinion
Miller: Universal basic ownership of AI beats universal basic income
“I think democratic ownership is the solution to how we deal with AI. The idea that everyone wants to get, like, universal basic income, I think that's a horrible idea, but universal basic ownership, I feel like that is magic.”
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Miller: Public venture fund structures will be adopted across VC within years
“Right now we're novel in a couple of years from now it'll be obvious and everyone will be doing this.”
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Miller: Public venture funds will become a multi-hundred-billion-dollar asset class
“I think that it's about creating like a multi hundred billion dollar category where you get millions of people investing in private tech companies and build this bridge between the two sides of the market.”
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Miller: Every American will allocate 5% to public VC in 10 years
“I think that like 10 years from now, every single person in America will have five percent of their portfolio in like public venture capital. It'll be totally normal. It'll be like an ETF. It'll be just this thing that's standard and the public capital, so the…”
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Miller predicts most mega venture firms like a16z will eventually go public
“The nature of these partnerships is eventually they want to monetize and the best way to monetize is go public. This happened in all the investment banks. They've all went public. And so Yeah, I mean, they'll, most of them will eventually go public, and then t…”
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Miller predicts AI will displace 20% to 30% of white-collar jobs
“I think more than 20%, but less than 50. So like let's say 20 to 35 years, 20 to 30% of jobs are Not to, not, not just displaced, but also suppressed. So you don't make that marginal higher and that adds up to tens of millions of jobs.”