Hey there,

Alberto here with this week's Thursday newsletter.

Before we get to today's pre-IPO opportunity, I want to talk about Nvidia—because the lesson matters.

In 1999, if you invested $1,000 in Nvidia's IPO, you'd be sitting on $2.5 million today.

That's a 2,500x return. Life-changing money from one early bet.

Most people saw Nvidia as a graphics card company. A few saw infrastructure that would power the future of computing. Those early believers changed their lives.

Today, we're featuring a company looking to IPO soon—giving you a chance to get in before they go public.

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Hey there,

Alberto here with your Tuesday newsletter.

This week we're breaking down something that's quietly reshaping access to public markets: retail IPO allocations.

For the first time, regular investors can buy shares at the same price institutions pay. But before you get too excited, let me show you why this isn't the opportunity you think it is.

Nvidia went public in January 1999 at $12 per share.

At the time, they were known for making graphics cards for PC gamers. Wall Street saw them as a niche hardware company in a competitive market.

But a few investors saw something different. They saw a company building the infrastructure for visual computing. They saw technology that could power everything from gaming to data centers to artificial intelligence.

Those early believers bought shares at $12. Today, Nvidia trades over $30,000 per share (split-adjusted).

A $1,000 investment in 1999 would be worth $2.5 million today.

That's not just a good return. That's generational wealth from recognizing an infrastructure shift early.

Here's what the Nvidia story teaches us: the biggest returns don't come from buying stocks everyone already knows about.

They come from getting in before the IPO before CNBC covers it. Before your neighbor asks if they should buy it.

When a company goes public, most of the value creation has already happened. Early employees, angel investors, and venture capital firms made 10x, 50x, and sometimes 100x returns before retail investors ever heard the name.

By the time you can buy shares on the Nasdaq, you're late. Not too late—but late enough that the life-changing multiples are mostly gone.

For decades, pre-IPO investing was reserved for institutions and the ultra-wealthy.

If you weren't a VC, a private equity firm, or didn't have millions to invest through wealth managers, you simply couldn't access companies before they went public.

That's changed. Platforms now give accredited investors direct access to pre-IPO shares—the same opportunities that used to require connections and massive capital.

When a company is 6-12 months from IPO, you can buy shares at valuations that reflect private market pricing, not public market hype.

That's the opportunity we're featuring today for Premium members, you can still become one today and check our Pre-IPO Access.

Institutional investors don't wait for IPOs. They invest in private rounds years before companies go public.

That's the access we provide at Founderscrowd Premium. Every Thursday, you get one fully vetted private market opportunity—companies that could IPO in 2-5 years, when the upside is still substantial.

This is where 10x, 50x, and 100x returns happen. Not in the IPO. In the years leading up to it.

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