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How will CartaX attract and retain secondary investors while providing a transparent investment platform?
James McGillicuddy
Co-founder & CEO at BRM
Certainly. A couple of things there. One, totally understand for the folks that , the only way they can generate their alpha is through running around and trying to trade off information asymmetry. Definitely understand where this could be viewed as a potential threat. What I would say to them, though, is that the other way to view this is that, if you're building a relationship with these issuers, the companies that you want to be an investor in, and they're just not going to take, you know, they're not going to run a company allowed liquidity event because of the administrative overhead, this actually gives you an edge. Because this allows you to say, hey, listen, you're on the CartaX platform. All you do is you need to open up provision and auction. And then, you know me, you've liked what I've said about your business , and because the company is controlling who's allowed into the auction , they might be one of the few people that the company's allowed in. So we are giving issuers all of the control of the private markets with the liquidity in the public markets. So folks shouldn't really see it as a threat, and they should actually embrace it because now companies will be able to let them into their business in between primary rounds.