Say Good Bye to Brick and Mortar.....Hello To Click and Order

Rules, The standard that holds everything and everyone accountable. The metric that determines how successful you will be or how to measure your failures. Which brings me to a historical event, that most of you are familiar with, Black Wall Street. Some of you maybe asking yourself, what does BWS has to do with rules and I’m going to answer EVERYTHING!!! Especially when it comes to your Finacial and economical progression and it doesn’t matter what your ethnicity is. The most important thing that this event established was, how and who can further economical opportunities in this capitalistic country.

Between 1933-34, An organization was put in place to uphold a set of regulations to standardize the way you could raise money for ideas to create opportunities for your community. This organization is called the SEC and for whatever reason they were put in place, their reasoning was to protect investors but, 78 years later President Obama signed a law called the J.O.B.S. Act, which would open the floodgates for the capital markets to be ceased once again. The Act instituted the financing opportunity for us to build and take part in the 4th Industrial Revolution. An occurrence which was missed by our ancestors three times previous, now let us embellish in the glory which it will afford us.

A Revolution is not an insignificant event. It is defined as any sudden or grand change of movement and the term is mostly used synonymously with people. So if the people decide to change in movement, business has to also. Therefore we add the word industrial in front of it. To be alive, able and willing participant of an INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION is MAJOR!!! Allow me to give a couple of examples of wealth being generated from the past events.

In the 1800’s the first Industrial Revolution took place which involved Coal and Steam. These two substances propelled the innovation of movement to create locomotion and machinery. The train and cotton gin are two creations which came from it, allowing transportation to be enhanced and labor to be more efficient. But above all, Cheaper cost of production. Once again, the movement of the people was changed, and the Vanderbilt’s got rich. The second industrial Revolution, Electricity and Petroleum was involved. General Electric was born, Oil was refined to gas, which instituted our so beloved CARS!!! Who got rich, Thomas Edison, John D Rockefeller and Mr Ford. Not Tom but Henry LoL!!!

By the evolving use of the substances from the last two Revolutions, The Third Industrial Revolution was able to innovate. This is the foundation of where we are now. The third Industrial Revolution is called The age of Electronics and All I’m going to say is the COMPUTER!!! This by far has to be The Greatest invention of our time and creation which not only allows people to be moved at unthinkable speeds, if compared to times past. but something even some would say is more important, INFORMATION!!! And I don’t have to mention the names of Empires that were made from this movement, YOU KNOW!!! Ok, let me mention a few, The Gates, The Job’s, The Page’s (Google Co Founder). These are some of the names that benefited, took part and flourished from Industrial Revolutions, Now is your chance to put your name in The financial history books.

Now that we’re caught up, Let me elaborate on the iconic event that we have the privilege to embark upon, The Fourth Industrial Revolution aka The Information Age, which is being enabled by a system we call the internet. The internet having its birthplace in the previous Industrial Revolution, has become the land, the highway with exits to build a new infrastructure. It’s created a new way of doing business along with creating a new community of movement for people known as Digital Nomads but I like to call The Convenience Society. Since the internet level of importance has been proven, the most lucrative businesses has grown and profited from gathering, securing and transferring data. Uber $63B, Facebook $363B, Amazon $1.63T. Data is the new oil. While most use these platforms, Not many profit or build wealth from them, but they have become systematically important from being the pioneers of the space.

While we are thankful for these companies and the service they provide, We should be highly grateful for President Obama and his amendment of the JOBS Act, which is allowing us to raise funding to execute the ideas the previous digital giants has done thus far. These regulations has opened up The American capital markets to private companies, where in times past you would have to be a high net worth individual to cease the opportunities of private company investing. Some of these pre IPO companies will be responsible for jump starting the new economy, creating new jobs along with smaller market entrepreneurs. Not only will we watch this space grow but we will also build.

Deno Duplessis

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