Capital Ideas 46: Going Public's Darren Marble on How Entertainment is Turning Audiences Into Owners

In this episode of Capital Ideas, we sit down with Darren Marble, the visionary behind Going Public, a streaming platform built around Regulation Crowdfunding and Regulation A+ offerings where viewers can invest in startups in real time. Marble breaks down the massive cultural shift of the modern "investumer" and explains why storytelling is actually the ultimate form of transparency and due diligence. What we cover: • The $500 Million Valuation Illusion: How some popular equity crowdfunding campaigns take advantage of their own cult followings by setting outrageous, unvetted valuations—and how to fix it. • The FINRA Moat: The grueling inside story of having to push a major season launch back three months and spend $500,000 to review every episode with regulators. • The Lesson of the ICO Boom: Why the 2017 crypto bubble proved a massive, untapped retail appetite for early-stage risk, despite being plagued by bad actors and asymmetric information. • The Pre-IPO Awareness Engine: Why some of the largest privately held companies in the country are looking to streaming media to educate everyday investors before listing on public exchanges. Investor Choice Advocates Network (ICAN Law) is the only nonprofit public-interest litigation firm in the country focused exclusively on reigning in SEC overreach and expanding fair access to capital markets. Be part of a movement to protect innovation and opportunity in American markets while preserving essential investor protections—join our email list today: https://www.icanlaw.org/newsletter-si...