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Shahar Burg

Pipo - The first stock market for people

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Building a career is expensive. Education, training and equipment cost a lot of money! Instead of borrowing, Pipo enables you to raise money from friends, family and your social network in return for shares in your future success.

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Ihecci Mercy
This is amazing. I'm currently working on this same concept. Congratulations to the Pipo team this is revolutionary.
Ben Thompson
@ihecci tell us more!
Ihecci Mercy
@ben_thompson3 I will message you with more details
Kemal Goksu
Really interesting idea!
Ben Thompson
@kemalgoksucom Thanks Kemal for your support and encouragement!
Dan Weiss

One of the more interesting ideas I heard about.

Pros:

Amazing Idea! can't wait for it to be launched globally. will definitely apply.

Cons:

None

Shahar Burg
Maker
Thank you Dan! 🥰
Ben Thompson
Maker
Hey Dan, thank you so much for your review! We look forward to seeing your Pipo on www.pipo.io!
Aaron O'Leary
Recently watched a short documentary on a guy who started doing this with his life a few years back, interesting concept, still don't know how to feel though
Ben Thompson
Maker
@aaronoleary @jamesg_oca _oca Hi Aaron and James thank you so much for these comments, and congrats James on being publically traded - @chakabu and I would love to connect and fine out more!
Shahar Burg
Maker
Hello! I'm really excited today to present our work and to launch Pipo (early Beta) - a global marketplace for investing in people. 🤔Why did we build Pipo? We’ve all heard the expression, “the best investments are those made in people”. There are lots of people around us that might be the next big thing - it could be our classmate, one of our colleagues or our neighbour’s son. We know these people’s talent and their chances of success far better than we know the inside operations of Apple, Microsoft or Walmart, right? So why can’t we invest in the people we believe in? 👩‍💻How does Pipo work? Talented individuals (we call them Pipsters) can go public just like companies do, create an attractive profile, issue their own pips (just like shares), and attract investors. Pipsters pay givebacks (like dividends) every month or whenever they reach a significant milestone. Investors and Pipsters form a mutually beneficial relationship, based on transparent incentives: -- Pipster gets: 💵Cash investment to fund their talent 👏Financial bonus each time their pip price reaches new high 🧚A supportive community, invested in their success -- Investor gets: 💸Givebacks from the Pipster 📈Pip-sale - investors enjoy the rise of pips price when trading them in the Exchange 🥰Play a part in the success of someone they believe in -- 🙆Why now? Social media created the personal brand ➡️ Crowdfunding proved that community funding works at scale ➡️ Freelancing popularity shows the evolution from companies/projects to individual talent ➡️ All of the pieces are now in place to invest in people, not in projects or startups - in people! 👦🏻👩🏻‍🍳👧🏻👨🏻👩🏻🕵🏻👩🏻‍⚕️👱🏻‍♀👱🏻👨🏻‍⚕️👨🏻‍🍳👩🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍🏭👨🏻‍💻👩🏻‍💼👨🏻‍💼👨🏻‍🔧👩🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍🎨👩🏻‍🚀👨🏻‍⚖️🤵🏻🙋🏻🙋🏻‍♂️ 🔧We have used the blockchain to quickly develop the Beta platform. Our next step is to adjust the platform to serve non-crypto users as well. 🥳If you’re a talented individual, such as a content creator, digital marketer, sports player, gamer, developer, promising student... create your own Pipo now ➡️https://pipo.io/go-pipo 💜We’d love to hear any feedback, thoughts or suggestions you may have. Don’t hesitate to play around, create profiles and communicate in the chats. The current profiles are just dummy ones, and it’s a very early version, so have fun! Thank you very much, Shahar
Steve McGarry
@chakabu Glad to see someone pursuing this concept again. I've met with two groups here in SF that tried this concept 2 years ago and they ran into heavy securities laws with the SEC to operate in the US. Given the laws around this in the US are you only launching with investors and talent in a specific country?
Ben Thompson
Maker
@chakabu @stvmcg Hi Steve. At present we are planning our launch for the UK market. We will take a look at how the SEC situation develops over the next few months. Thank you very much for your support, and if there are any other questions you have please shout!
Otman Alami
@chakabu the idea is very clever it deserves the continuation
Debarati Ghosh
It is great creative incentive for encouraging the actual talented people.
Ben Thompson
@debarati_ghosh Thank you Debarati for your support!
Pradeep Baskaran
Awesome idea!! wonder how the execution part is gonna be . . . !! Curious to know about the terms and conditions for the investors and the people (who rise funds). I hope you guys will be shortlisting profiles(who can raise funds) based on various aspects .. if yes .. what are those?
Ben Thompson
Maker
@pradeep_vicky Thank you so much for your question! We're hoping that many different types of people will want to become Pipsters; gamers, fashion designers, web developers, sports people and athletes, vloggers, bloggers and promising MBA students! We'll monitor closely the people who come onto the platform to become Pipsters - firstly for security (are they who they say they are?), secondly fit for Pipo (do we think they have what it takes to succeed on the platform?) and thirdly does each new profile have the necessary detail (visuals, links, detail on givebacks etc) to be engaging and attract investors? We have taken inspiration from the initial public offering (IPO), when companies first offer their shares to the public. Pipo works like an IPO for people - that's why we called it "Pipo - the People's IPO. Individuals can Pipo themselves, issue pips, and attract investors. For more detail on how Pipo works please check out our FAQ: https://pipo.io/faq
Pradeep Baskaran
@ben_thompson2 "Pipsters".. huh?? Like the sound of it. Those are greater filters for profiles/people to put in place. Great job - I'm actually thrilled. All the best of luck & congratulations. Do you guys have a newsletter that I can subscribe to?
Ben Thompson
Maker
@pradeep_vicky Thank you again! We don’t have. Newsletter yet but you can like us on FB, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn, and you can write to us here or through www.pipo.io. Why not consider becoming one of the early Pipsters?
Tal Y

can't wait to see the new features once the community is growing

Pros:

great idea! can help so many people in so many ways

Cons:

still new..

Ben Thompson
Maker
Thanks Tal Y! Great to have your support!
Misha Leybovich

Neat idea, and I do think will exist in one form or another at some point. Main feedback now: a) should be more clear on the site that it's not actually real people, and b) I'd be concerned about securities laws and complete earnings auditing to make sure investors actually get their proper return (e.g. there's a reason why the SEC and IRS exist :). Interested to see where this product and/or concept in general goes.

Pros:

Neat idea, and can serve a real need with proper execution

Cons:

Unclear on the site that it's not real people, plus potential securities and auditing issues

Shahar Burg
Maker
Hi Mishe, thank you for checking out Pipo. As I wrote in the post, the current profiles are dummy profiles. And no, we don't accept ETH for these profiles. They are connected to the Ethereum QA network (Rinkeby) and no one can invest in these profiles so we are not taking any $ from anyone.
Dan Dan
Wow, I went to the site and actually thought those were real people, just realized after reading this post that's not the case.
Ben Novak
What an amazing concept!! Kudos! Can’t wait to start investing 😈
Ben Thompson
@novakben Thank you Ben!!!! Great to have your support!
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