Future of Investment
summary
Panel claims global finance is inflating a bubble after seven years of zero real interest rates, pushing capital into early-stage deals and alternative credit platforms; cites concrete wins like Lending Club, OnDeck and crowdfunding campaigns that raise $3–10M and create negative working capital for products. Examples of disruption: peer lending disintermediating banks, upstart student-loan models, and startups sold to incumbents (Climate Corp → Monsanto) proving corporate buyers pay for data — many experiments scale, some don’t.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Why talk about investments at all
- 1:54Panelists and asset classes
- 2:14Zero real interest rates era
- 5:00Lending and finance disruption
- 7:49Transparency as disruption core
- 9:58Raising capital to disrupt finance
- 10:41Crowdfunding potential and limits
- 12:27Regulation versus innovation
- 14:15Socially responsible investing future
- 17:44Corporate transparency alignment
- 18:49Inequality and compounding interest
- 21:20Emerging markets decline
- 22:02Big Tech startup acquisitions
- 24:31Industry transformation beyond Big Tech
- 26:38Shrinking VC landscape
- 28:00Funding non-scalable modern businesses
- 30:30Opportunities in small businesses
- 31:55Interest rates and real estate forecasts
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