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Getty ImagesBy Kevin KelleherApril 7, 2015 7:53 AM EDTWe live in a magical age of unicorns, those pre-IPO tech startups valued at $1 billion or more. And unlike the dot-com bubble, most of these startups are for real. They are companies whose servicesndash;like Uber, Spotify or Pinterestndash;we use every day. You could even say we consumers are the ones that are helping these unicorns to fly.There is only one problem: Most of us consumers, as individual investors, are being shut out of the party.These days, you hear a lot of people in the tech-investing world talk about how this is not 1999. The red ink has been washed away by the black at the strongest startups. A confluence of new technologiesndash;the cloud, social networks, smartphonesndash;are creating the mega-brands of the future. As one CEO memorably put it, Itrsquo the biggest wave of innovation in the history of the world.This is more or less true, but another big difference between today tech market and the tech market of 1999 is often overlooked: During the dot-com bubblendash;when most of the IPOs were pipe dreams waiting to crashndash;individual investors were able to buy their shares freely. Today, by co salomon ntrast, most of the investments adidas samba in the hottest tech startups are af1 happening behind the velvet ropes of private financing.US securities laws set up last century ensured that only accredited investorsmdash;currently, people earning at least $200,000 a year or with a net worth of mor
A view of Wakanda, in the movie Black Panther .Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Everett CollectionIdeasBy Kendra Pierre-LouisSeptember 21, 2020 10:15 AM EDTKendra Pierre-Louis is a climate reporter and a contributor to All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crises, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson.I donrsquo;t know when I first learned th stanley cup at the story of humanity was one of profound wrongness. But the idea that the world was brok stanley cup en because of our presence was always there, a constant cadence with which to orient my life, as seemingly natural as the four seasons that ordered my years and the cycle of the sun that ordered my days. I grew up in the Catholic Church, whose theology of original sin means that humans are born with a built-in desire to disobey God ever since Eve, allegedly, took a bite of that damn apple. Since her and Adamrsquo punishment was to be kicked out of the Garden, itrsquo not a stretch to say that I also grew up with a belief that humans have an innate tendency to destroy their environment. Growing up in New York City, secular classes taught to state standards imparted a similar message of humanityrsquo inherent shortcomings. A critical undercurrent of history and science classes, for example, is the idea of perpetua stanley cup l progress. That progress, we are taught, has always come at the cost of the environmentmdash;from smog-filled skies to landscapes devoid of birds, as chronicled in Rachel Carson Lnjp Puerto Rico Is Recovering From Another Blackout Caused by a Fallen Tree
Getty ImagesBy Kevin KelleherApril 7, 2015 7:53 AM EDTWe live in a magical age of unicorns, those pre-IPO tech startups valued at $1 billion or more. And unlike the dot-com bubble, most of these startups are for real. They are companies whose servicesndash;like Uber, Spotify or Pinterestndash;we use every day. You could even say we consumers are the ones that are helping these unicorns to fly.There is only one problem: Most of us consumers, as individual investors, are being shut out of the party.These days, you hear a lot of people in the tech-investing world talk about how this is not 1999. The red ink has been washed away by the black at the strongest startups. A confluence of new technologiesndash;the cloud, social networks, smartphonesndash;are creating the mega-brands of the future. As one CEO memorably put it, Itrsquo the biggest wave of innovation in the history of the world.This is more or less true, but another big difference between today tech market and the tech market of 1999 is often overlooked: During the dot-com bubblendash;when most of the IPOs were pipe dreams waiting to crashndash;individual investors were able to buy their shares freely. Today, by co salomon ntrast, most of the investments adidas samba in the hottest tech startups are af1 happening behind the velvet ropes of private financing.US securities laws set up last century ensured that only accredited investorsmdash;currently, people earning at least $200,000 a year or with a net worth of mor