 Back in the 90s, during the original dot-com boom, companies went public a lot quicker than they do today. So companies like Amazon, for example, did a really early-stage seed investment, took a little bit of venture money, and then went public. And what that means is that a lot of the growth of the company took place while the company was a public company that anybody could invest in. Fast forward to today, where venture capital has a lot more funding in it, and there's an abundance of private money. And companies are staying private a lot longer. For example, SpaceX was founded almost 20 years ago. They have huge capital requirements because they're making all of these fixed infrastructure investments, and yet they're still a private company. So that's changing a little bit today with the advent of what's called REGCF crowdfunding, which allows companies to go out and raise small, discrete rounds of financing using what's effectively a quasi-public mechanism so anybody can invest. You know, hopefully we'll see a return to the 1990s where, you know, your average Joe and Jane can get the same types of investment opportunities that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley get. Visit microff.ai and invest in an early-stage winner today.