From Garage to Public | Joe Cecala
This conversation with Joe Cecala will blow your mind. We're talking about the real barriers keeping brilliant entrepreneurs from accessing capital markets. Joe's not just some financial guy throwing around theory. He's a former US Army cavalry officer, civil rights lawyer, securities lawyer, AND CPA who's literally creating new stock exchanges. Most people think there's only NYSE and NASDAQ. That's it. But there's this massive gap between raising your first few hundred thousand and getting to Goldman Sachs knocking on your door. Joe spent 14 years and met with over 200 members of Congress to create legislation that passed unanimously multiple times. He's building Dream Exchange specifically for companies that traditional markets ignore. Joe breaks down the real process of going public. The costs. The timeline. The relationship-driven nature of everything. Plus he shares the three pieces of advice that every entrepreneur needs to hear. This isn't a theory. This is from someone who's done it twice and is changing how the entire system works.
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About Joe:
A former U.S. Army Cavalry Officer, civil rights lawyer, securities lawyer, and CPA, Joe Cecala was legal counsel for the first company to carry electronic securities trading over the internet called Archipelago. Archipelago grew to eventually become the ECN of the NYSE and is known today as NYSE Arca. Since that time, working closely with small entrepreneurial business owners, Mr. Cecala has helped conduct over 100 successful capital events. Most recently, he contributed significant authorship for the Main Street Growth Act, the legislation creating venture exchanges. This act is pending in both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. It has previously garnered unanimous support in Congress multiple times from 2018-2021. Joe is the Founder and CEO of Dream Exchange, which is forming the first ever venture exchange as well as the first ever black-owned national exchange in the history of the US, schedule to open late 2022. The Dream Exchange has been created from more than 30 years of continuous progress to help US capital markets become a fair marketplace where all communities and people come to achieve the goal of making the world a better place by funding the future of great ideas and inventions.