Because the gains from AI concentrate in private, early-stage companies that most people cannot invest in, the shift to capital makes broad access to early-stage investing an urgent problem: companies stay private about twelve years, unaccredited investors are excluded, and access concentrates in a few large firms. Pools that ordinary people can join, steer and exit are one answer.

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  the median technology company now goes public twelve years after it was founded, longer than the life of the fund that first backed

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  In the first quarter of 2026 the five largest firms took 73 percent of all commitments

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  The lion's share of the profits, economic gains from this transition will be captured by private, will be captured in private markets. Companies are staying private for longer. Unaccredited investors can't participate in private markets and they have a very high fee structure.

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