Private credit rebel. I ditched rigid funds to bring retail investors stable, high-yield options. Sharing what I’ve learned along the way.
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I’ve come to a realization.
We’re an anomaly. A square peg in a round hole.
Over the past month, I’ve connected with a few people who are building platforms or apps to match accredited investors with private investment opportunities.
Right in our wheelhouse!
We're focused on engaging with accredited investors every day, educating them on the power of private investments, and introducing them to our exclusive opportunities.
Most firms in this space follow a well-worn path—real estate-heavy private equity, structured with an 80/20 split and a 2% management fee. And most are constantly chasing deal flow, hoping the next deal works out.
We’re different.
We don’t chase deals—we raise capital to put to work in high-quality opportunities we already have.
While others scramble to find investments, we’ve built strong relationships with a select group of partners, ensuring a steady pipeline of opportunities that meet our standards.
We don’t structure funds to generate management fees—we structure them to maximize investor returns. Many firms profit regardless of performance, but our success is directly tied to the success of our investors.
We don’t hand off capital and hope for the best—we maintain an active role in governance. Because we own a stake in our partners, we have direct influence over key decisions, adding an extra layer of oversight to safeguard investor capital.
We don’t rely on traditional private equity economics—we have a unique revenue model. Our partners, not our investors, pay our capital placement fees. This alignment ensures that investor capital is fully optimized for growth, not eroded by excessive fees.
We focus on consistency, not speculation. Many private investment firms depend on market cycles and unpredictable deal flows.
We operate with a long-term vision, leveraging our established relationships and structured investments to deliver stable, risk-adjusted returns.
Ballard Global has never lost investor capital, and our model ensures that we remain focused on performance rather than fees.
We’ve built a model that works, and we’re scaling.
There’s a better way to invest, and we’re proving it every day.
If you're an accredited investor looking for a smarter way to invest in private markets, I'm here to help.
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The biggest AI companies pushing for AI regulation feels a lot like the Meat Inspection Act. Massive companies can afford massive compliance costs while startups can’t. Fast forward to today, how’s our meat processing industry look?
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This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.
2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.
Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.
And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.
What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?
3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.
It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.
4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
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BREAKING: Five former Georgia police officers have been arrested and charged for allegedly misusing Flock cameras, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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🚨 AMERICANS ARE DECLARING WAR ON FLOCK CAMERAS — AND PEOPLE ARE TEARING THEM DOWN
Something is happening all over America.
People aren't just complaining about surveillance cameras anymore.
They're taking action.
Reports are emerging of Flock cameras being cut down, damaged, disabled, and targeted in multiple cities.
Why?
Because what started as a tool to track stolen vehicles has turned into something many people believe is far bigger.
The breaking point came when public records reportedly revealed that federal agencies had conducted thousands of searches through local camera networks.
For many people, that confirmed their worst fears.
But now the story is getting even darker.
People are learning the next generation of surveillance won't stop at license plates.
New systems are already being discussed that could potentially pull Bluetooth identifiers from phones, smart watches, earbuds, and other devices traveling inside vehicles.
In other words, your car may not be the thing they're interested in tracking.
You are.
Meanwhile, cities across the country are beginning to reconsider their contracts as public backlash continues to grow.
And as more cameras go up, more cameras seem to be coming down.
How much surveillance are people supposed to tolerate before they start fighting back?
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I appreciate the direct response, Congressman @RoKhanna. You've raised a real question, so let me answer it seriously.
You're partly right, and I'll grant it fully: the Founders who established a government to protect individual rights performed an achievement no inventor can match, because they built the precondition for every other achievement. Jefferson and the framers created the framework of liberty. Lincoln preserved it and extended its promise to those wrongly denied it. On that we agree. The statesman who secures freedom is a hero of the highest order.
But notice the distinction that matters. Those men are great precisely to the degree they protected liberty, not to the degree they exercised power. The Founders' greatness was in handing power back. Lincoln's was in ending a violation of rights, slavery, the gravest in our history.
That is why FDR doesn't belong with them. He did the opposite. He expanded the state at the expense of the freedom the Founders secured: seizing gold under threat of prison, attempting to pack the Court, building the apparatus that treats your earnings as the government's to allocate. He used power; he didn't restrain it.
And here is the deeper point. You frame it as Rockefeller and Musk versus the statesmen, as if they compete. They don't. The statesman's whole purpose is to protect the conditions, namely individual rights, in which the producer can create.
The Founders, along with Locke and Aristotle, built the house. Musk, Rockefeller, Bezos, and Vanderbilt are examples of what free men do inside it.
If you fully understood the principle of individual rights, you would be fighting against men and women like Warren, AOC, Sanders, and the rest of these collectivist statists in both parties, instead of advocating ideas that deprive individuals of the very rights you claim to honor.
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Brian is correct. The other way to think about accredited investment laws is that gambling, where due to the houses edge people are guaranteed to lose in the long run, is legal.
How could it then be that startup investing, where people have some small chance of winning, is illegal, unless you are rich?
Throw in the fact that the worst odds in any gambling is the lottery, where the government maintains a monopoly AND markets it directly to the poor, the same people who the government bars from startup investing, and it’s obviously a bad policy.
Lastly I’ve always found the assumption that “rich people are sophisticated investors” rather…rich. Who invested in Madoff and subprime mortgages and FTX and pointless coins tied to corporate databases?
Not the poor.
I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US.
Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured.
These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax!
We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions.
These are two possible routes I see:
1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair.
2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.
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Tells you everything.
Rather than: “let’s make sure many more Americans can become trillionaires”
Instead it’s: “let’s make sure that no other Americans ever reach that level of success.”
These people are parasites. Explicitly opposed to human flourishing. Amazing.
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If you haven’t figured it out by now, our entire government is a huge mafia who launders our tax payer money right back to themselves through foreign aid and endless wars.
They all hate you and could care less if you suffer and die horrible deaths, as long as they get dirty rich.
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Medicare fraud is a trillion dollar industry. Notice not one Democrat is trying to end this fraud and reallocate the money to serving the poor. That’s because they and their staff and friends and family are all in on it. Skimming and scamming.
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Again for those in the back, Elon once offered to cut a check for $6 BILLION to the WFB to "eliminate World hunger" as they said the money could. His one condition was that the accounting was public.
They did not accept.
Elon Musk dismantled USAID programs that provided lifesaving assistance to millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. The human cost was enormous, while DOGE’s net fiscal impact was inconsequential.
Now, as Musk approaches trillionaire status, he should commit/tithe at least $100 billion to a fund dedicated to combating extreme poverty, hunger, preventable disease, and humanitarian crises worldwide.
Money alone cannot undo the damage already done. But if this moment marks an unprecedented personal financial milestone, it should also be an opportunity for an unprecedented act of restitution. Musk has the resources to save and improve countless lives. He should use them.
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Yeah…the guy employing tens of thousands of people and providing goods and services for hundreds of millions of people is “rigging the system” but the guy who has blown billions on scam projects is our “defender” …ok Gav.
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Why is it the burden of the people to prove the fraud to the letter of the laws crafted to conceal the fraud, rather than on the government to prove the elections are legitimate and to offer maximum transparency?
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Seeing a lot of panic about $STRC trading around $94.
A reminder: preferred stocks trading below par is completely normal. Many preferreds spend long periods below their $25 or $100 liquidation preference.
STRC’s $100 par value is not a price floor. It’s the stated value used for liquidation preference and certain redemption provisions.
What’s unique about STRC is that its dividend rate is adjusted monthly with the stated goal of encouraging the stock to trade near its $100 par value. That mechanism can influence demand, but it does not guarantee the stock will always trade at par.
A 5% discount to par is not evidence that something is broken. It’s evidence that investors are demanding a higher yield, pricing risk, or reacting to market conditions – exactly what preferred stocks do.
This is a preferred stock trading like a preferred stock.
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Stop calling them public schools.
They aren’t open to the public and they aren’t accountable to the public.
They are run by the government, regulated by the government, funded by the government, and compelled by the government.
They are government schools.
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Gen Z has more opportunities to make money and live well than any generation that has ever existed.
You were born into the high-tech world Gen X built. You have a computer in your pocket more powerful than an entire server room was when we were your age, and all of the world’s information is at your fingertips.
You can learn any skill at home. You can reach an audience of millions through social media and live streaming. You have 3D printers and AI and crypto and ETF’s and Starlink and Shopify and millions of remote jobs and revenue-generating opportunities.
Endless opportunity.
Yet instead of recognizing that opportunity and embracing it, you spend your time complaining.
Complaining about politicians. Complaining about other people who are further along in their career paths than you. Complaining about minimum wage and housing prices.
“But bro, the minimum wage…” Minimum wage? Are you kidding me? You can LITERALLY start and run a multimillion dollar business living in a van down by the river.
You don’t have to live in expensive cities because “that’s where the jobs are.”
You can work from anywhere.
You can get a remote job making 2-3X what we made at your age, or use AI to make apps and get millions of downloads, or clip videos and post them on social sites and get an ad rev share.
There are ENDLESS opportunities to make a living.
Get your shit together and embrace this gift you’ve been given. No other generation in history has ever had it.