Podcast: How the JOBS Act will Return the Public Markets as the Engines of Economic Growth

Dara Albright

CFIRA Leadership Team Member Dara Albright, founder of the NowStreet Journal – the voice of the private company marketplace– is featured on this week’s episode of the Grow VC Everyone Funding Startups podcast, which explores the Facebook IPO fiasco and discusses what the disappointing offering says about the state of the U.S. capital market.

Ms. Albright explains why Facebook’s IPO is symptomatic of broken public markets and how retail investors are “no longer willing to serve as the exit strategy for the privileged.” According to GrowVC‘s introduction, Ms. Albright dscusses how the the JOBS Act will democratize capital formation and return the public markets to their rightful place as the engines of economic growth. The podcast can be heard at GrowVC‘s podcast page.