Katayev: SEC regulations lock retail investors out of early tech value
Val Katayev · $30M by Age 19 — And Where You Should Build Today · May 26, 2022 · at 51:42
Val Katayev discusses retail investor access to alternative assets and private company gains compared to venture capital institutions.
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“The reality is the government has pulled away the ability for the average people to make a lot of different kinds of investments. The SEC basically blocks all kinds of different opportunities because they, you know, they scrutinize everything, right? So that's why we have The world we live in where institutional money, like VC money, has access to all these tech companies, grows them to tens of billions of dollars of value, only then give put them out on the IPO because it's just not worth for these companies to go public anymore, right?”
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