In this video the founder and CEO of SecondMarket , Barry Silbert, talks about his vision for the future of capital markets. Barry Silbert started SecondMarket in 2004 and has grown it into the major market place where privatly held company stock is traded. Shares of Facebook, Groupon, Twitter and all the popular privatly held companies people have grown to know are traded on Barry’s platform.

Barry has a vision that SecondMarket will become the next NASDAQ or New York Stock Exchange. His idea is that SecondMarket can provide for an alternative route for growing young companies to pursue other than going public. For example rather than a private company listing on the NASDAQ a company can one day opt to “list” itself on SecondMarket. More on his ideas and the beginnings of SecondMarket below.