Hooked On Startups

In this episode I talk to Jason Best, one of a handful of people who co-authored the JOBS Act and helped legalize equity and debt based crowdfunding in the USA. Jason has spoken at The White House, South by Southwest, TEDx, the World Bank’s Global Forum on Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship and the Angel Capital Association. We discuss how the biggest change to securities laws in over 78 years is already creating billions of dollars of new investments. Find out how crowdfunding and cryptocurrencies can work together. 0:46 - Introducing Jason, his career, and some background on his role in the JOBS Act. 2:37 - Defining crowdfunding from Jason’s perspective. 4:32 - Differentiating between the types of crowdfunding and how the idea came about for Jason. 5:54 - Getting started and working against a framework that has been in place for decades.   9:29 - How the execution of the JOBS act has developed since it was signed in 2012. 12:02 - Projections for crowdfunding moving forward and the demand Jason has s