243: How KingsCrowd Makes Startup Investing Accessible with Christopher Lustrino

Wealth Matters By Alpesh Parmar

Chris Lustrino is Founder & CEO of KingsCrowd, the first ratings and analytics service for the online private markets. He has raised $3.5M from 2,700 investors to date and grown his business to over 350,000 subscribers and 20 full-time staff.

Prior to founding KingsCrowd, he worked on behalf of private equity clients at LEK Consulting from 2014 to 2017 and supported travel-tech startup Freebird in 2018 to raise an $8M series A prior to being acquired by Capital One. He also founded Simple.Innovative.Change, a Fintech publication focused on alternative investments and lending and was a finalist for the 2018 LendIt Fintech Journalist of the Year.

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(00:00 - 03:38) Opening Segment

-Chris is being introduced as the guest Host

-Chris shares something interesting about himself

(03:38 - 25:36) How Kingscrowd makes startup investing accessible to all

-Chris also loves to invest in Real Estate

-How did the Kingscrowd start

-Chris talks about how the investor benefits from the kingscrowd

-He also shares what process do they follow

-Chris' ideas of the deals to watch

-He shares as well the successful and failed deals he had

-Chris shares if there's a conflict of interest

-And also he shares about investors can see all their business investment

-Lastly, Chris shares what are the trends that he sees in the market

(25:53 - 29:15) Fire round

-Chris shares his investment strategy

-He also shares his favorite Finance, real estate book, or any related book

-He shares about the website and tools that he can recommend

-Christophers' advice to beginner investors

-Also he shares how he gives back

(29:15 - 29:57) Closing Segment

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