Crowdfunding Will Fund A Golden Swanicorn

A Letter from Fundrise CEO Ben Miller on Regulation Crowdfunding

This is a tremendously important day and I applaud the Securities & Exchange Commission for the adoption of Regulation Crowdfunding.

Many doubt the significance of the regulations adopted today. These critics are wrong.

Crowdfunding will fund a new era of super-innovation. The historic initiatives about to be put in place by the SEC and Congress address a fundamental flaw in capital markets: no one funds high risk – high reward endeavors and the sort of initiatives that results in innovations like the space program, penicillin, or the Internet — what I call the “Golden Swanicorns”.

The nature of super-innovation is a barbelled risk curve, where the vast majority of investments fail and the few that succeed revolutionize humanity. Much of this high risk/reward innovation has been abandoned as deep research has been de-funded and government and big business shift to prefer incremental over revolutionary change.

The crowd is a fundamentally new mode of investment and because of it, all sorts of wacky, out-there, and thus truly revolutionary projects will receive funding they otherwise would not have. There will be plenty of failures, but the successes will be fantastic and world-altering.

I truly believe that crowdfunding will fund a cure for cancer.

Image Sources: Swanicorn by swandog

Here’s to what the future will bring!

Ben Miller

CEO & Co-Founder, Fundrise

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