Explaining Fund Types 🚀

Originally, Vivint was bought by Blackstone and then Blackstone came and bought ancestry.com as well. They're owned by the same companies. This is a private equity. They're buying privately held businesses. Okay, so then what's a hedge fund? A hedge fund is a pool of money. Instead of buying privately held businesses or real estate, they're buying public securities or public businesses— stocks, bonds, options, crypto, forex. Does that kind of make sense? Venture capital. What's that? It's a pool of money Instead of buying all those other things, they invest into early-stage startups like Shark Tank, so they get pitches, they invest in early stages, but again, it's all the same thing.