How to Invest in a Private Equity Company

Yirun: When we started Fundrise, it actually wasn't possible. It wasn't legal in a lot of ways to go around and ask individuals the average investor if they wanted to invest in private assets. A public REIT is a lot like public tech companies that you could invest in. The difference in real estate is instead of a company basically going from being venture owned to IPO-ing, what happens is in real estate context, the real estate property itself goes from being owned by a private equity fund to being sold into the public market.