E237: The $150 Trillion Revolution in Private Markets

How do you democratize access to private markets and what happens when everyone can invest like a VC? In this episode, I sit down with Kendrick Nguyen, Co-Founder and CEO of Republic, the global platform that’s opened up private investing to over 3 million people across 150 countries, facilitating more than $2.6+ billion in transactions. We unpack how tokenization, fractionalization, and regulatory innovation are reshaping private markets. Kendrick explains how Republic is bridging the gap between institutions and retail investors, what tokenized SpaceX and OpenAI shares mean for the future of liquidity, and why the next evolution of finance is about participation—not speculation.