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The Retirement Capital Playbook: How to Invest in Startups Using Your IRA & Solo 401K
Your retirement account can legally invest in startups. Here’s the system wealthy founders use (and why no one ever tells you).
Let me start with a simple, slightly uncomfortable truth:
Most people build retirement accounts by tracking the market.
A handful build retirement accounts by creating the market.
That’s the difference between a typical 401k investor…
and Peter Thiel turning $1,700 into $5,000,000,000 inside a Roth IRA.
Yes, you read that right.
And here’s the twist nobody talks about:
You don’t need to be a billionaire to use the same playbook.
You just need to know one thing:
Your retirement accounts can legally invest in startups.
Not someday.
Not with a loophole.
Right now.
And totally within IRS rules.
Today is Part 1 of the 4-part series breaking down exactly how.
Let’s go.
The Big Secret Most Investors Never Learn
Most people treat their retirement accounts like a slow-moving savings vehicle.
But that’s not how the tax code is written.
Your retirement account — the same one quietly compounding in a dusty target-date fund — can legally invest in: