Paul Lovejoy

Paul was financially ruined in 2008. Fraud and system failure. Most people would have stopped at who to blame.
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He kept asking why.
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Why did the system fail the way it did? Why is it so hard to invest locally? What does a stock market investment actually fund? How do you build an economy that serves the people living in it?
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Each answer opened the next question. That trail led Paul through a decade of following threads from social enterprise, impact investing, CDFIs, B Corps, the circular economy and Regulation Crowdfunding. He got a securities license to understand the system from the inside.
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By 2024 he had a direction worth proving.
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So he did what curious people do.
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He ran an experiment. 366 consecutive days of investing in the public capital market that most financial advisors had never heard of. To learn what he didn't know yet.

1,000+ opportunities evaluated. 500+ businesses funded across 20+ platforms. Regular people funding real businesses. Solar microgrids. Regenerative farms. Worker cooperatives. Affordable housing. Not trading ownership papers. Actually building things.

Every lesson became a tool when curiosity fueled Paul to push past the surface problems. The experiment ended and the building began.

Today Paul's the Principal Advisor of Stakeholder Enterprise (FINRA #317736), the first Registered Investment Advisor specializing in community funded investments.