Summary: The Investment You Can Make
Series 17: Who Decides What You Get
In the late 1960s, women in Omaha invested in Warren Buffett’s partnership not because they analyzed float calculations or read proxy statements. They invested because they had watched him operate, understood what he was building to be real, and trusted him to tell the truth about it. The amounts were what they could afford to lose.
Regulation CF allows companies to raise up to $5 million from non-accredited investors. Regulation A+ allows up to $75 million. These are the mechanisms through which the reader can become a capital participant in the aging technology infrastructure she will use. Crowdfunding aligns the reader’s financial interest with her care interest in a way that no other capital source achieves: the investor and the beneficiary are the same person.
The article is unflinching about risk. Early-stage investment can lose everything. The reader on a fixed income should never invest money she cannot afford to lose. The temporal honesty that BML applies to technology claims applies equally to financial claims. A framework for evaluating any aging technology investment is provided: the sustainability questions from Series 13 applied to the company seeking capital, the pricing transparency from Series 13 applied to the investment terms, and the honest assessment of what the reader is actually buying when she puts $500 or $2,000 into a crowdfunding round.
Two stories are given equal weight: one investment that worked and one that did not. Both are told honestly because the reader who sees only the success story is being sold to, and this series does not sell. The evaluation framework applies to any aging technology investment, not only to one.
The reader who invests $1,000 in a crowdfunding round for aging technology she has followed and evaluated is not speculating. She is participating in the capital structure of something she needs to exist. The risk is real. The alignment is real. Both deserve the same honest assessment.
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