It’s Showtime!

In this first video, we want to welcome you to the show… and explain why now is the perfect time to tap into the huge potential in pre-IPO investing.

If you’ve been anxiously watching the stock and crypto markets, then this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.

Because for the first time in history, mainstreet investors have opportunity to invest in the smallest, most exciting and high-tech companies out there…

Before they go public.

But there are some important things you need to know first.

We’ll get into all that – and what you can expect going forward – in today’s episode. I think you’re going to love it.

Watch it above.

TRANSCRIPT

Alex Moschina: Hello, all. I’m Alex Moschina. I’m the associate publisher of Manward Press, and I’m joined by a man you all know, Andy Snyder, our founder. Hey, Andy.

Andy: Hey, Alex. Good to see you.

Alex: Good to see you too. Today, I want to welcome everybody who’s watching to Venture Spotlight. We’ll tell you a little bit about what to expect, why everyone who’s watching this should be excited about what’s to come. And Andy, I think you’re going to be instrumental in helping me do that. Where should we start? Where do you want to get into? Why Venture Spotlight? You go. Take the reins.

Andy: Yeah. This is our very first Venture Spotlight ever. First of all, welcome. If you’re watching this, you’re the inaugural crew. I’m just excited. The reason we’re doing it is because there’s such a big opportunity. Starting with the JOBS Act and some additions to it since then. Regular investor have the opportunity like never before to really step beside big investors, hedge funds, institutions, pensions funds, you name it. And get in on pre-IPO, companies before they go public, pre-public companies. And invest in some of the smallest, some of the most high tech, some of the most nimble companies out there.

And the wall is just now really meeting the technology and allowing us to get in. And that’s probably what’s most exciting is the technological side of all this. With just a few clicks of mouse, I can go to Wefunder, to Republic, wherever, any of the dozens of portals out there, and buy these shares $100, sometimes as low as $50, $250 and get that stake.

That’s what’s really exciting. These are longer term holds. They’re high risk. We have to admit that up front, but with high risk, comes high reward, and that’s really what’s interesting. Never before have we been able to get into a company as one of the first investors. Here’s the owner that owns it, and then we’re getting in right beside, if not the owner, but the founder that put his own money into it. And now we’re getting right beside them, just one step removed. And that’s really, really cool.

And so, we see what’s happened with IPOs, companies or IPO and later at a bigger scale, we saw some tremendous opportunities with IPOs, but we also saw some lackluster IPOs, especially late 2021 as the markets got very expensive relative to what the IPOs are bringing there. This is a chance to kind of get rid of that noise. And there’s a whole lot less noise when it comes to the private markets.

I mean, we have a much, much cleaner look at a company with six employees and maybe a $100,000 in revenue versus a company with 60,000 employees and several billion dollars in profits each quarter. From an analyst perspective, it’s great. And I can get the CEO on the horn and we’re going to bring some of them to Venture Spotlight. We can get the founders, we can talk, we can look a different set of books, really that’s not burdened by the SEC and the standardization of all that.

I think your question is why we’re doing this. And so why we’re doing this is because I’m super excited. There’s a ton of potential out there. And not many people are doing this. A portal this with Venture Spotlight, where every week we’re going to get on and talk about the opportunities, the profit opportunities, bring the insiders in. I mean, nobody else is doing it like, well, we plan to do. Really cool. Very exciting.

Alex: Yeah. I mean you said potential. We’re talking about growth here. This is almost essentially a second stock market and it’s no secret. I mean, this is not a surprising fact to people that companies are staying private longer. They’re taking longer to raise money, boost their valuation. Now we have trillion dollar companies or multi-trillion dollar companies in terms of Apple, which I wore my Steve Jobs turtleneck today, just for this discussion.

But you have that. We don’t necessarily want to be going for an Apple where, what room is there for them to innovate these days? We’re going after companies, like you said, these six employee companies who have just so much growth potential, really the sky is the limit for them. And we’re getting in. Because who wouldn’t have loved to have gotten into Apple or Amazon when they were still in the garage?

This is that kind of opportunity. And obviously, the S&P has done wonderful the past couple of years. And I think last year was up something close to 30%. We’re looking at opportunities that are going to be more of your longer term plays that have the potential to go up hundreds of percentage points, 10X, 20X and beyond. With that, of course, there is that risk that you’re talking about, but there is also this unmatchable potential that you’re not going to find in the primary stock market.

Andy: Exactly. And I’m not saying don’t invest in Apple. I think big tech stocks are great. But what about all the companies? I mean, every year, Apple buys up dozens of companies and that’s where we really want to be. That’s where that big opportunity is. To go out and buy Apple, you’re plunking out a pretty good chunk of change. And that should probably be the bigger party portfolios is stocks like that.

But here’s the opportunity for 100 bucks, 500 bucks. Put $1,000 into one of these plays, let’s push it aside and see where it goes. Because I mean we’re looking at holding periods of a year at minimum. Up to five years, 10 years for on the long side. Our sweet spot that we’re aiming for is two to three but some of these are going to be a little bit longer. But by two to three years out, again, you could be looking at that 10X, 100X opportunity that that money almost just set it and forget it.

And so, I think we talk about risk-reward a lot. And here, the most you can lose is 1,000 bucks and the reward is just exponentially larger. Why would you not want to do that? We have a lot of quotes about if you have that 10X return potential, do it, do it every time. And so, it just makes a ton of sense. And going back to the Apple thing, they have some room to innovate, but really, what they’re doing is they innovate. Or as they innovate, they’re making room for these tiny companies.

Some of the companies that we’re looking to at, are enabling the technology that Apple is working on. As they bring out the iPhone, what opportunity does that bring it down below? And that’s really what’s fascinating, is if we look at technology as a continuum, I think I wrote about this earlier this week, talked with one of the greatest tech analysts on the planet. And he says, he looks at technology as this just continuum that ever keeps evolving.

So many of us look, and we say, “Here’s my smartphone. It doesn’t get any better than that. Technology has peaked. But in 2000, I thought I had the greatest smartphone because I could look at radar on it. And now it does so much more. And then, as we get into the metaverse and all this, there’s going to be all these tiny companies, the technology is just exponentially growing. And if you look back to 2000, where we are now, that curve is just going up and up. And now it’s just such an exciting time to be getting in on those sorts of companies.

Alex: And I think anybody who’s listening right now who’s not a technophile and doesn’t want to be, and doesn’t want to know what’s inside their iPhone, or whatever smartphone they have, which is most people. That’s actually, that’s me. I’m very excited to read the top line of why I should care about it. That’s what we’re doing here.

What we’re trying to do here is we’re trying to spare people from having to stay as focused on this industry as you and I are having to do, because this is what we do all day, every day. I’ll read the top line, you read the rest and put the cliff notes together for me. But our goal with this series is to stay high level, is to get the need-to-know information about this sector. Because frankly, too few people are aware that these opportunities, many of them even exist, or how to get started with them.

This video series, which we will be releasing every Friday, same time. You’ll get the alert, come check it out. And we will hopefully be making you a better investor in this place that I’m going to bet, if you’re watching this, you’re probably not already super familiar with.

Andy: Exactly. And that’s, I mean, again, I just keep using that word exciting and it sounds like you’re putting all the hard work on me, but that’s what I’m passionate about. That’s what gets me excited, is to dive in there. And that’s what my training, experience and knowledge is focused on. That’s what I’m good at is diving in, making these calls, talking to insiders, founders.

And I appreciate that not everybody has the passion, the time. We all have our specialties. This is mine. Let me do it. And as Alex said, we’ll give you that top line idea and give you what we think is the very best research and I think some of the most exciting ideas out there.

Like Alex said, every week, this is what we’re going to be hammering home. It’s going to be a ton of fun. We’re going to learn a lot and really get to explore some. It’s not all going to be high tech either. There’s some other opportunities out there. Some really interesting opportunities that we have a chance to get in on. Stay tuned. Look forward to those emails every week and we’ll do our very, very best to make sure they’re entertaining, but as well as very profitable.

Alex: All right. Well, I think that gets us what we need to be for today. Suffice is to say, I’m excited, Andy’s excited. We’re so excited, in fact, that we are currently renovating our offices to include a fancy studio. By fancy, I mean it’ll be a room with a camera in it. But we will be doing these, not from our respective homes in the relatively near future, which I think will be great for the people who live in our respective homes, aside from ourselves.

Look out for that. Really, just keep an eye on your inbox. We’re really excited to bring this content to you. And we have a lot more in store for you, including some guest interviews and some big names that I think you’ll… I keep saying excited. Don’t be drinking every time I say excited, but we are excited about all that’s to come. We hope we see you next time. And until then, take care of yourselves.